English Explanatory Dictionary

hickory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.
  2. The wood of these trees.
  3. A coarse, durable cotton fabric.
  4. A club with a head made from hickory wood.
name
  1. A number of places in the United States:
  2. A census-designated place in Graves County, Kentucky, named for the hickory trees.
  3. An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland.
  4. A town in Newton County, Mississippi, named for "Old Hickory" (Andrew Jackson).
  5. A city mostly in Catawba County, North Carolina, named after the Hickory Tavern.
  6. A town in Murray County, Oklahoma.
  7. A census-designated place in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
  8. An unincorporated community in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia.
  9. A number of townships, listed under Hickory Township.

Pronunciation

/ˈhɪkəɹiː/ /ˈhɪkɹiː/ En-us-hickory.ogg

Word forms

hickory hickories pokickery hiccory hickery hickry

Etymology

A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery, from Powhatan pawcohiccora.

Derived words

banded hickory borer beaked hickory black hickory hican hickory elm hickory eucalyptus hickory girdler hickory golf hickory horned devil hickoryite hickory oak hickory-pickery Hickory Point hickory stripe hickory wattle shagbark hickory shellbark hickory Texas hickory water hickory brown hickory hickory cloth Hickory County hickory nut hickory shad swamp hickory
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