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hickory nuts

hickory nuts is the plural of hickory nut.

Meaning of hickory nut

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

Questions about hickory nuts

What is hickory nuts the plural of?
Hickory nuts is the plural of hickory nut.

Words near hickory nuts in the dictionary

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

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