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hickory
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hickory has 2 senses
- hickory(n = noun.plant) Array - valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees; Array is a kind of wood
- hickory(n = noun.plant) hickory tree - American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts; Array is a member of carya, genus carya
has particulars: bitter pecan, carya aquatica, water bitternut, water hickory, black hickory, brown hickory, carya glabra, pignut, pignut hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut, bitternut hickory, carya cordiformis, swamp hickory, big shagbark, big shellbark, big shellbark hickory, carya laciniosa, king nut, king nut hickory, carya myristicaeformis, carya myristiciformis, nutmeg hickory, carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory, big-bud hickory, black hickory, carya tomentosa, mockernut, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory
is a kind of nut tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
hickory, n. [North American Indian pawcohiccora (Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from pounded hickory nuts. “Pohickory” is named in a list of Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to “hickory.” J. H. Trumbull. ].
An American tree of the genus Carya , of which there are several species. The shagbark is the Carya alba , and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the Carya glabra . The swamp hickory is Carya amara , having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hickory, n. (pl. -ies)
1 any N. American tree of the genus Carya, yielding tough heavy wood and bearing nutlike edible fruits (see PECAN).
2 a the wood of these trees. b a stick made of this.
1 any N. American tree of the genus Carya, yielding tough heavy wood and bearing nutlike edible fruits (see PECAN).
2 a the wood of these trees. b a stick made of this.
Etymology
native Virginian pohickery
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