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Definition of Carya

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Note: In some parts of America, especially in New England, the name walnut is given to several species of hickory (Carya), and their fruit. Ash-leaved walnut, a tree (Juglans fraxinifolia), native in Transcaucasia. Black walnut, a North American tree (J. nigra) valuable for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled, and nearly globular. English, or European, walnut, a tree (J. regia), native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also called Madeira nuts. Walnut brown, a deep warm brown color, like that of the heartwood of the black walnut. Walnut oil, oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in cooking, making soap, etc. White walnut, a North American tree (J. cinerea), bearing long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called butternuts. See Butternut.

Meaning of Carya from wikipedia

- Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus Carya, which includes 19 species accepted by Plants of the World Online. Seven species are native...
- also US: /pɪˈkɑːn, ˈpiːkæn/ pih-KAHN, PEE-kan, UK: /ˈpiːkən/ PEE-kən; Carya illinoinensis) is a species of hickory native to the southern United States...
- Carya ovata, the shagbark hickory, is a common hickory native to eastern North America, with two varieties. The trees can grow to quite a large size but...
- Carya laciniosa, the s****bark hickory, in the Juglandaceae or walnut family is also called kingnut, big, bottom, thick, or western s****bark, attesting...
- Carya tomentosa, commonly known as mockernut hickory, mockernut, white hickory, whiteheart hickory, hognut, bullnut, is a species of tree in the walnut...
- Carya cordiformis, the bitternut hickory, also called bitternut, yellowbud hickory, or swamp hickory, is a large hickory species native to the eastern...
- Carya glabra, the pignut hickory, is a common, but not abundant species of hickory in the oak-hickory forest ****ociation in the Eastern United States...
- Carya cathayensis (Chinese: 山核桃) (common name Chinese hickory) is a species of hickory native to China. It is slow growing and reaches a height of 20...
- Carya hunanensis is a species of hickory native to China. It was first described by Wan Chun Cheng and R.H. Chang. Carya hunanensis is part of the genus...
- Carya floridana (syn. Hicoria floridana) the scrub hickory, is a small tree native to the Southeast United States, where it is endemic to central Florida...