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pecan|pɪˈkæn, ˈpiːkæn, pɪˈkɑːn|
Also 8 paccan, 8–9 pecon, 9 pecanne, peccan(e, pekan.
[In 18th c. paccan = F. pacane, Sp. pacana, from the native name of the nut in various Algonkin dialects, e.g. Cree pakan, Ojibway pagan, Abnaki pagann.
‘The common hickory nut was called Pacan, a general name for all hard-shell nuts, meaning that which is cracked with an instrument, by a stone or hammer. Strachey's Virginian vocabulary has Paukauns for walnuts. Baraga, for the Chippeway, Pagan, nuts, walnuts, hazel-nuts. At the West and South, this name, as Pacanes and modern Pekan,..has been applied to a single species, the fruit of the Carya Olivae-formis’. Trumbull Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 1872, 25.]
a. The nut or fruit, olive-shaped and finely flavoured, of a species of hickory (Carya illinoensis) common in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, often attaining a very great height; also, the tree itself, the pecan-tree.
1773P. Kennedy Jrnl. in T. Hutchins Descr. Virginia, etc. (1778) 52 The timber, Bois Connu, or Paccan, Maple, Ash, Button Wood. 1797A. Ellicott Let. 1 Apr. in C. V. Mathews Andrew Ellicott (1908) 152, I have a large Keg of Pecon Nuts put up for you. 1812Brackenridge Views Louisiana (1814) 61 The pecanne..found on the low grounds..is a large tree resembling somewhat the hickory, but has a more delicate leaf. 1818G. Flagg Let. 12 Sept. in Trans. Illinois State Hist. Soc. 1910 (1912) 158, I have seen some [hogs] as fat upon Hickorynuts, Acorns, Pecons & Walnuts as ever I did those that were fatted upon Corn. 1876Forest & Stream 13 July 376/2 Spending a few days at Congo, gathering pecans. 1969Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 28/2 Nowadays, pecans can be bought in many British shops. Ibid., The Pecan is a large tree up to 170 feet high, with grey, furrowed bark. 1975New Yorker 3 Feb. 25/2 The cake..was made of thin layers of yellow sponge cake and filled with a whipped cream laced with brandy, pecans, and a special coffee extract.
b. bitter pecan, bitter-seeded hickory (Carya aquatica), a smaller species native to the southern States. Also called water- or swamp-hickory.
c. Comb., as pecan-nut, pecan pie, pecan-tree.
1786Jefferson Writ. (1859) I. 506 To procure me two or three hundred paccan-nuts from the western country. Ibid. II. 74 The paccan-nut is, as you conjecture, the Illinois nut. The former is the vulgar name south of the Potomac. 1827J. Coldstream in Balfour Biogr. ii. (1865) 23 Amongst them is a peccan nut-tree. 1883Pall Mall G. 17 Sept. 4/2 He buried her under a big pecan tree [in California]. 1936F. M. Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Bk. (new ed.) 633 Pecan Pie... 3 eggs... 1 cup light corn syrup... 1 cup finely chopped pecans. 1976Express-News (San Antonio, Texas) 2 Oct. 3-E/4 The specialty-of-the-house dessert—which is made every day—is pecan pie. 1976Listener 22 July 86/1 Ordinary Southern food..fried chicken and pecan pie. |