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Hickory tree   /hˈɪkəri tri/   Listen
Hickory tree

noun
1.
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts.  Synonym: hickory.





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"Hickory tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... her husband, making a display of ankle-bone under her scant calico wrapper, her sun-bonnet flapping to her nose, the four juveniles able to walk dangling from her fingers or drapery. Mallston, straight as a hickory tree, carried his youngest on his bosom, patting its cheek ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various
... worked a man's length under the ledge, and one day I looked up with the sun in my eyes, as it reddened toward the west, and saw Ongyatasse standing under a hickory tree. He was dressed for running, and around his mouth and on both his cheeks was the white Peace Mark. I made the proper sign to him as to ...
— The Trail Book • Mary Austin et al


Words linked to "Hickory tree" :   big shellbark hickory, white-heart hickory, Carya glabra, pignut, genus Carya, Carya tomentosa, king nut hickory, shellbark hickory, mockernut hickory, hickory, Carya myristicaeformis, pignut hickory, Carya myristiciformis, Carya, Carya ovata, shellbark, swamp hickory, brown hickory, bitternut, bitter hickory, big-bud hickory, Carya laciniosa, big shagbark, mockernut, shagbark hickory, black hickory, king nut, water hickory, water bitternut, bitter pignut, nut tree, bitternut hickory, bitter pecan, shagbark, nutmeg hickory, Carya aquatica, Carya cordiformis, big shellbark


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