carya alba

Shagbark \Shag"bark`\, n. (Bot.)
   A rough-barked species of hickory ({Carya alba}), its nut.
   Called also {shellbark}. See {Hickory}.
   (b) The West Indian {Pithecolobium micradenium}, a legiminous
       tree with a red coiled-up pod.
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Shellbark \Shell"bark`\, n. (Bot.)
   A species of hickory ({Carya alba}) whose outer bark is loose
   and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
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Hickory \Hick"o*ry\, n. [North American Indian pawcohiccora
   (Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from
   pounded hickory nuts. "Pohickory" is named in a list of
   Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to
   "hickory." --J. H. Trumbull.] (Bot.)
   An American tree of the genus {Carya}, of which there are
   several species. The shagbark is the {Carya alba}, and has a
   very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets.
   The pignut, or brown hickory, is the {Carya glabra}. The
   swamp hickory is {Carya amara}, having a nut whose shell is
   very thin and the kernel bitter.
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   {Hickory shad}. (Zool.)
   (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring.
   (b) The gizzard shad.
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