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- noun Plural form of
shellbark .
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Examples
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The contest also has shown some mockernuts of large size and better quality than ordinary but still not good enough to be in a class with the shellbarks noted above.
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If the 1929 contest does nothing more than to bring to light these fine shellbarks it is worth all it cost.
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Miss Jones: People that try them at our place don't notice much difference between those hybrids and the shellbarks.
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We got 134 specimens of shagbark hickory, 40 shellbarks and 10 others, perhaps hybrids or other species.
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Along the Mississippi there were then shellbarks and shagbarks, together with pecans, the latter of which I understand are all gone now.
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The shellbarks and shagbarks are among the finest looking trees in
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They are mainly of the shagbark species although some are shellbarks, some pignuts, and a few hybrids.
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For example, in the 1918 Contest, three shellbarks and one mockernut came into the prize winning class, whereupon a special lot of prizes for shellbarks and mockernuts were given.
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These are both shellbarks and the nuts have not been well filled, as borne on our grafts.
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But, by various means, they had learned just where the nuts grew most plentifully that season; and quite a list of available places had been tabulated: to the Guernsey Woods for blacks; plenty of shagbarks, and some shellbarks to be gathered over at the old Morton
The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path Donald Ferguson
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