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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



... great- (many times great-) grandmother planted, nor with the venerable peonies and day lilies, the lilacs and syringas that remember the day when the elms and magnolias above them were puny saplings. Even a huge pecan tree, twenty-one feet around, whose planting was recorded in the "plantation book" over a century ago, is considered rather a new-comer by the ancient family ...
— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins

... made it luxurious to a degree. In this room, lighted by softly shaded electric drop lights, a cheery log fire blazing upon the shining brass andirons, the girls had gathered. Stella was arranging her electric chafing dish upon its little marble stand. Peggy was opening a box of shelled pecan nuts, Polly measuring out the chocolate, and the other girls were supplying all needful, or needless, advice concerning the modus operandi. Tzaritza, now a most privileged creature indeed, had stretched her huge length before the hearth, looking for all the world like a superb white ...
— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson



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



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