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Pecan

noun

(Written also pacane)

Wood of a pecan tree.

Tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts. Synonyms: Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree.

Smooth brown oval nut of south central United States.

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"Pecan" Quotes from Famous Books

... other hand, nut trees are usually hardy and add much to the landscape. Pecan, chestnut, walnut and shaggy bark hickory are some of the more ...

— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... Prof. Neilson has a number of plates of the northern pecan at its best. Besides that he has two remarkable specimens of hybrid hickories. One is a McCallister, and the other is of unknown origin. There are also on the tables other remarkable nuts grown in this part of the United States, in ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... wagon with caramels And candy of every kind, And buy all the almond and pecan nuts And taffy that I could find; And barrels and barrels of oranges I'd scatter right in the way, So the children would find them the very first thing, When ...

— The Child's World - Third Reader • Hetty Browne, Sarah Withers, W.K. Tate

... islands of pecan, plum, and peach trees. It is a peculiarity worthy of remark, that these islands are nearly always of one sort of tree. It is very rare to meet with one where there are two sorts. Like the beasts of the forest, that herd together according to their ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various

Words linked to "Pecan" : wood, bitter pecan, Carya, nut tree, edible nut, pecan tree, genus Carya