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Peculiar vs Pecan - What's the difference?

peculiar | pecan |

As nouns the difference between peculiar and pecan

is that peculiar is that which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic while pecan is a deciduous tree, , of the central and southern united states, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.

As an adjective peculiar

is out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.

peculiar

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.
  • The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.
    It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.
  • * 1800 , , Volume 41, page 379,
  • I saw nothing peculiar in his conduct, and thought that his arrangement of the ballot box was perfect.
  • * 2001 , Jack Schaefer, Wendell Minor, Shane ,
  • "Wasn't it peculiar ," I heard mother say, "How he wouldn't talk about himself?"
    "Peculiar ?" said father. "Well, yes, in a way."
    "Everything about him is peculiar ." Mother sounded as if she was stirred up and interested. "I never saw a man quite like him before."
  • * 2008', Stephen Arnott, '''''Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World .
  • Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
  • Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.
  • * 1855 , ,
  • This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,[29] that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason.
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  • * 1895 , , XX: Anomalous Islands: Celebes,
  • But of late years extensive Tertiary deposits of Miocene age have been discovered, showing that it is not a mere congeries of volcanoes; it [Iceland] is connected with the British Islands and with Greenland by seas less than 500 fathoms deep; and it possesses a few mammalia, one of which is peculiar', and at least three ' peculiar species of birds.
  • (dated) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not shared or possessed by others.
  • * Bible, Titus ii. 14
  • And purify unto himself a peculiar people.
  • * Hooker
  • hymns that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself
  • (dated) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
  • * Milton
  • while each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat
  • * Dryden
  • My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.

    Synonyms

    * (out of the ordinary) strange, uncommon, unusual * (common or usual in a particular place or circumstance) specific

    Antonyms

    * (out of the ordinary) common, usual * (common or usual in a particular place or circumstance) common, general, universal

    Derived terms

    * peculiarity * peculiarly * peculiarness

    See also

    * (wikipedia "peculiar")

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
  • * South
  • Revenge is the peculiar of Heaven.
  • (UK, canon law) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
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    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

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