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/pəkˈɑn/ /pˈikˌɑn/ /pɪkˈæn/ Listen

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

... that you call a museum, go out as empty headed as they came in. Consider. Say a Fiji islander came here and took back with him from the United States an electric light bulb, a stuffed possum, an old hat, a stalactite from the Mammoth cave, a sackful of pecan nuts, a pair of handcuffs, half a dozen photographs and a dozen packing cases full of things gathered from here and there, and then set the whole junk pile up under a roof in the Fiji Islands, what would his fellow Fijians know from ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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