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shagbark

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From shag + bark.

noun shagbarks

  1. A North American hickory species, (Carya ovata) characterized by distinctive, shaggy, exfoliating bark in mature specimens, commonly known as the shagbark hickory. The face of the country is exceedingly beautiful, the soil fertile, and bearing oaks and shagbark hickory.
  2. A West Indian leguminous tree, Pithecellobium micradenium.

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@misc{shagbark_2026,
  title = {shagbark},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shagbark},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}