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hickory nut

hickory nut noun: one of the large edible nuts of the hickory tree.

Noun

hickory nut (plural hickory nuts)

  1. One of the large edible nuts of the hickory tree.
    • To break the shell of a hickory nut, you needed a hammer and an act of Congress, and even then you needed a screwdriver to get at the meat, which was about as tasty as a clod of limestone.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 270

Forms of hickory nut

pluralhickory nuts

Questions about hickory nut

What does hickory nut mean?
Hickory nut means one of the large edible nuts of the hickory tree.
What part of speech is hickory nut?
Hickory nut is a noun.
What is the plural of hickory nut?
The plural of hickory nut is hickory nuts.

Words near hickory nut in the dictionary

  1. hickory girdler
  2. hickory girdlers
  3. hickory golf
  4. hickory horned devil
  5. hickory horned devils
  6. hickory nut
  7. hickory nuts
  8. hickory oak
  9. hickory oaks
  10. Hickory Point
  11. hickory shad

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