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Kentucky   /kəntˈəki/   Listen
proper noun
Kentucky  n.  One of the United States.
Kentucky blue grass (Bot.), a valuable pasture and meadow grass (Poa pratensis), found in both Europe and America. See under Blue grass.
Kentucky coffee tree (Bot.), a tall North American tree (Gymnocladus Canadensis) with bipinnate leaves. It produces large woody pods containing a few seeds which have been used as a substitute for coffee. The timber is very valuable.






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"Kentucky" Quotes from Famous Books



... September 4, 1916, on the acceptance of a deed of gift to the Nation, by the Lincoln Farm Association, of the Lincoln Birthplace Farm, at Hodgenville, Kentucky.] ...
— President Wilson's Addresses • Woodrow Wilson

... see him when he is hungry," advised Emma. "Why, when we were riding in the Kentucky Mountains last ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods • Jessie Graham Flower

... of April, though I may be able to get my first peas in by the last of March. You see peas"—she was backing away—"this new Antarctic Pea—will stand a lot of cold; but beans—do come here, and look at these Improved Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans!" holding out the wonderfully lithographed page toward her. But she backed still farther away, and, putting her hands behind her, looked at ...
— The Hills of Hingham • Dallas Lore Sharp

... every train that stopped at Little Azalia. It was not a profitable habit in the long run; but Major Haley thought little of the profits, so long as he was conscious that the casual traveler had abundant reason to be grateful to him. Major Haley himself was a native of Kentucky; but his wife was a Georgian, inheriting her thrift and her economy from a generation that knew more about the hand-loom, the spinning-wheel, and the cotton-cards, than it did about the piano. She admired her husband, who was a large, fine-looking man, with jocular tendencies; but ...
— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris

... J. P. "The Kentucky Revival and Its Influence on the Miami Valley," Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications, ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park


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