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Hickory

Hickory Meaning & Definition
Hickory Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hickory?

[n] American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
[n] valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hickory: hickory tree

Related Terms | Find terms related to Hickory:

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Hickory In Webster's Dictionary

\Hick"o*ry\, 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.] (Bot.) 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}. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad.

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