Found 2 items, similar to Hickory.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: hickory hickory n 1: valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees 2: American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts [syn: hickory tree ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Hickory Hickory \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 Carya alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the Carya glabra. The swamp hickory is Carya amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. [1913 Webster] Hickory shad. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad. [1913 Webster]