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Hickory logo #10101) Bitternut 2) Mockernut 3) Nut 4) Pecan 5) Pignut 6) Shagbark 7) Shellbark
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Hickory logo #10101) City in the USA 2) City in North America 3) City in the Americas 4) City of the US 5) City in the US 6) City in North Carolina 7) City of North Carolina 8) City of the USA 9) City of the United States 10) City in the United States 11) City of North America 12) City of the Americas 13) Cookout flavoring
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Hickory logo #21000 Hickory (from Powhatan) is a type of tree, comprising the genus Carya (κάρυον `nut`). The genus includes 17–19 species of deciduous trees with pinnately compound leaves and big nuts. Five or six species are native to China, Indochina, and India (State of Assam), 11 or 12 are from the United States, two to four are from Canada and four ar.....
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Hickory logo #21002• (n.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.Hickory: words in the defin...
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Hickory logo #21003city, Catawba county, west-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies near the Catawba River (there dammed to form Lake Hickory) just east of the ...
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hickory logo #21003any of about 18 species of deciduous timber and nut-producing trees that constitute the genus Carya of the walnut family (Juglandaceae). About 15 ... [1 related articles]
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hickory logo #20973<botany> An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. Alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. Glabra. The swamp hickory is C. Amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. Hickory shad. ... <z...
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hickory logo #21422Wood from a native North American tree used at the beginning of the 19th century to make club shafts. Use continued until the 1920's.
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Hickory logo #20972Hick'o·ry noun [ 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. ] (Botany) An Americ...
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Hickory logo #21217Hickory is several species of timber trees of the genus Carya of the family Juglandeae. They are natives to North America. The wood is heavy, strong and tenacious and was used for making carriage-shafts, screws, whip-handles, cogged wheels, etc. The shag-bark (Carya alba) yields the hickory-nut of commerce, and its wood is very valuable. Carya oliv...
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hickory logo #20400[n] - valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees 2. [n] - American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
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hickory logo #21221Tree belonging to the walnut family, native to North America and Asia. It provides a valuable timber, and all species produce nuts, though some are inedible. The pecan (C. illinoensis) is widely cultivated in the southern USA, and the shagbark (C. ovata) in the northern USA. (Genus Carya, fam...
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hickory logo #21199any of several North American trees belonging to the genus Carya, of the walnut family, certain species of which bear edible nuts or yield a valuable wood. Cf. pecan, shagbark. · the wood of any of these trees. · a switch, stick, etc., of this wood. · a baseball bat. · Also calleda strong fabric of twill construction, used ch...
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