shagbark Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts
    Carya ovata; shellbark; shagbark hickory; shellbark hickory.

WordNet

Shag"bark` noun
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913