Hickory definition

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The nut of any of these trees.
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Any of several chiefly North American deciduous trees of the genus Carya, having smooth or shaggy bark, pinnately compound leaves, and hard smooth nuts, each containing an edible seed and surrounded by a husk that splits into four valves.
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The tough, heavy wood of one of these trees.
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A walking stick or switch made from such wood.
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Any of a genus (Carya) of North American trees of the walnut family, with compound leaves, solid pith, and hard nuts.
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The hard, tough wood of any of these trees.
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A switch or cane as of this wood.
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Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.
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Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genus Carya or Annamocarya.
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(uncountable) The wood of these trees.
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Noun

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hickory
Plural:
hickories

Origin of hickory

  • Short for Virginia Algonquian pocohiquara drink made of pressed hickory nuts

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery., from an Algonquian language, probably Algonquin pawcohiccora.

    From Wiktionary

Hickory Sentence Examples

  • But mixed with the oak and chestnut or higher up are considerable hickory, birch and maple; farther up the mountain sides are some hemlock and white pine; and on the swamp lands of the Coastal Plain are much cypress and some cedar, and on the Coastal Plain south of the Neuse there is much long-leaf pine from which resin is obtained.

  • Now just to show you what a nice guy I can be, I'm inviting you to an engagement party tonight at Fred's Hickory Inn.

  • Outside of these general areas, forest products are of relatively little value, the exceptions being the dense growths, in certain restricted areas, of live-oak, which is in demand for ship timbers; and scattering patches of hickory, which is requisite for certain manufactures.

  • Loblolly pine, cypress, oaks, hickory, ash, pecan, maple, beech and a few other deciduous trees are interspersed among both the long-leaf and the short-leaf pines, and the proportion of deciduous trees increases to the westward.

  • The maple, walnut, oak, ash, beech, elm, gum, sycamore, hickory and poplar, found on the southern slope of the Osage highlands, on the uplands about the source of the highlands and in the central portions of the Red river valley, are valuable for cabinet woods.

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