| 单词 | hickory nut tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmashickory nut tree 2. More fully hickory nut tree. Any of various North American trees of the genus Carya; a hickory tree. Also with distinguishing word. Cf. hickory n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > pecan or hickory > pecan or hickory tree hickory1670 hickory nut tree1683 pecan1773 mockernut1804 pecan tree1804 1683 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1827) II. i. 245 A hickery nut tree, mighty large, and more tough then our ash. 1739 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. II. Addenda sig. Rrrr2/1 The sweet Hickery-nut. 1783 D. Grimwood Catal. Greenhouse Plants 49 Juglans ovata. Shag-barked Hickory-Nut-tree. 1802 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees xxi. 190 The Hickery Nut from North America, the fruit of which is small but well-flavoured, is also raised here. 1858 L. S. Wilson Fugitive Slaves Canada 13 Trees of majestic height, the sugar maple, the lofty cherry, the noble oak, and the hickory nut overshadow their little abodes. 1922 Amer. Nut Jrnl. Dec. 86/2 The hickory nut trees were fairly groaning under their heavy loads. 1992 M. Schaffer-Fehre tr. S. Schaal & W. Ziegler Messel iv. 44 The other genera have only limited, natural distributions: Pterocarya in East Asia, Engelhardia in India and Southern China.., Carya, the hickory nut, in North America. 2007 B. O'Connor How to Steal Dog iv. 29 Suddenly a squirrel..scrambled up the hickory nut tree. < as lemmas |
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