Hickory meaning

hĭk'ə-rē
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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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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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

  • Why a hickory tree?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Green hickory finely split makes the woodchopper's kindlings, when he has a camp in the woods.

  • 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.

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