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Hickory vs Pecan - What's the difference?

hickory | pecan |

As nouns the difference between hickory and pecan

is that hickory is any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genus Carya or genus: Annamocarya while pecan is a deciduous tree, species: Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.

As an adjective hickory

is of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.

hickory

English

(wikipedia hickory)

Alternative forms

* hiccory, hickery, hickry, pokickery

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.

    • Noun

    (hickories)
  • Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genus Carya or .
  • (uncountable) The wood of these trees.

    • Derived terms

    * brown hickory * hickory cloth * hickory nut * hickory shad * swamp hickory

    References

    pecan

    English

    (wikipedia pecan)

    Alternative forms

    * paccan, peccan

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deciduous tree, , of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
  • * 1885 , Howard Seely, A Ranchman's stories , page 154:
    • And away on the farther bank, a motte of huge pecans , standing like giant sentinels over the dwarfed landscape, filled the eye with remote vistas in their shady, twilight aisles. It was very still.
  • * 1978 April, in the Texas Monthly , page 51:
    • Within its ornamental fence, the 8/10-acre property includes several of the largest live oaks in the area — plus huge pecans and stately magnolias.
  • A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
  • * 1982 , Beth Henley, Crimes of the heart , page 17:
    • MEG. (Meg takes out two pecans and tries to open them by cracking them together. ) Come on ... Crack, you demons! Crack!
    LENNY. We have a nutcracker!
    MEG. (Trying with her teeth. ) Ah, where's the sport in a nutcracker? Where's the challenge?
  • A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.
  • * 2005 , in The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Joseph Pizzorno, Lara Pizzorno; Atria Books, ISBN 978-0-7434-7402-3):
    • Each shell contains two pecans , usually plump and oblong in shape, although some varieties are round or pointed.

    See also

    * pekan

    References

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