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Pecan   Listen
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Pecan  n.  (Written also pacane)  (Bot.) A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.






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"Pecan" Quotes from Famous Books



... had been killed nearly a year before. There were three of them, a boar and two sows, and a couple of the cowboys stumbled on them early one morning while out with a dog. After half a mile's chase the three peccaries ran into a hollow pecan tree, and one of the cowboys, dismounting, improvised a lance by tying his knife to the end of a pole, and ...
— Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches • Theodore Roosevelt

... this is merely hearsay evidence; we reached England too late for berries. Happily, though, we came in good season for the green filbert, which is gathered in the fall of the year, being known then as the Kentish cobnut. The Kentish cob beats any nut we have except the paper-shell pecan. The English postage stamp is also much tastier than ours. The space for licking is no larger, if ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... found drinking beer in a saloon on East Pecan Street by Colonel St. Vitus about a week before, and according to the Austin custom in such cases, was invited home by the colonel, and the next day accepted into society, with large music ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry



Words linked to "Pecan" :   Carya, wood, pecan pie, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree, Carya illinoensis, edible nut



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