| carya | (n) genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China, Syn. genus Carya |
| caryatid | (n) a supporting column carved in the shape of a person |
| eucarya | (n) quandong trees, Syn. genus Eucarya, Fusanus, genus Fusanus |
| pterocarya | (n) Asiatic nut trees: wing nuts, Syn. genus Pterocarya |
| big shellbark | (n) hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut, Syn. big shellbark hickory, king nut, big shagbark, king nut hickory, Carya laciniosa |
| bitternut | (n) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts, Syn. swamp hickory, bitter pignut, bitter hickory, Carya cordiformis, bitternut hickory |
| caucasian walnut | (n) medium-sized Caucasian much-branched tree distinguished from other walnut trees by its winged fruit, Syn. Pterocarya fraxinifolia |
| mockernut | (n) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut, Syn. black hickory, Carya tomentosa, white-heart hickory, mockernut hickory, big-bud hickory |
| nutmeg hickory | (n) hickory of southern United States and Mexico having hard nutmeg-shaped nuts, Syn. Carya myristiciformis, Carya myristicaeformis |
| pecan | (n) tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts, Syn. Carya illinoinsis, Carya illinoensis, pecan tree |
| pignut | (n) an American hickory tree having bitter nuts, Syn. Carya glabra, brown hickory, black hickory, pignut hickory |
| quandong | (n) Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed, Syn. quandong tree, quandang, Fusanus acuminatus, Eucarya acuminata |
| shagbark | (n) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts, Syn. shellbark hickory, shellbark, Carya ovata, shagbark hickory |
| water hickory | (n) hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts, Syn. bitter pecan, water bitternut, Carya aquatica |
| Caryatid | { } a. Of or pertaining to a caryatid. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Caryatic |
| Caryatid | n.; pl. Caryatids [ See Caryatides. ] (Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Caryatides | ‖n. pl. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; (&unr_;) priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at Caryæ (Gr. &unr_;), a village in Laconia; as an architectural term, caryatids. ] (Arch) Caryatids. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes, Telamones, and Persians. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Eucarya | n. 1. quandong trees.
Syn. -- genus Eucarya, Fusanus, genus Fusanus. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
