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.
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