Noun: big-bud hickory
- Smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut
"Squirrels were busy gathering the nuts from the big-bud hickory tree";
- mockernut, mockernut hickory, black hickory, white-heart hickory, Carya tomentosa
Derived forms: big-bud hickories
Type of: hickory, hickory tree
Part of: Carya, genus Carya