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How to use pecan in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Pecan means a deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts. Example: “We can send you a hundred pounds a month of pecans to crack up.”

Examples of pecan by meaning

nounA half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.

  • Each shell contains two pecans, usually plump and oblong in shape, although some varieties are round or pointed.2005, in The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Joseph Pizzorno, Lara Pizzorno; Atria Books)

More sentences with pecan

  • We can send you a hundred pounds a month of pecans to crack up.From the entry crack up
  • We spent all day Sunday and picked up a buttload of pecans.From the entry buttload
  • Doggonit, she made me waste my doggone pecan candy.From the entry doggonit
  • The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.From the entry shell
  • For dessert, there's cherry Bakewell tart with almond frosting and caramelised pecans.2025 January 14, Hayley Minn, “How to dine like royalty in London... for peanuts! The best luxury set meal deals in the capital (including…. From the entry cherry bakewell tart
  • Sandwich the pecan nuts together in pairs with a little of the hazelnut marzipan.2009, Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Christmas Recipes: Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook, (Please provide the book title or journal name)…. From the entry marzipan
  • Chocolate chewies are light, crisp, and, yes, chewy chocolate cookies that are studded with chocolate chips and pecans.2011, Lisa Fain, The Homesick Texan Cookbook, page unnumbered page. From the entry chewy
  • Phylloxerans (Phylloxeridae) are uncommon pests of shade trees, limited to certain leaf and petiole gall-forming species that attack Carya spp. (pecan).2008, “Shade Tree Arthropods and Their Management”, in John L. Capinera, editor, Encyclopedia of Entomology, volume 4, page 3363. From the entry phylloxeran
  • Clusters of irregularly shaped cells (scleroids) form hard shells , like those of pecans or fruit pits .2002, Paul W. Syltie, How Soils Work, page 13. From the entry scleroid
  • Calling this beetle-browed disdainful young person, hair hanging in her face, jaws chewing pecan pie with mechanical precision, honey!2001, “Middle Age: A Romance” by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 173). From the entry beetle-browed
  • This group of pecan arthropods can cause damage to foliage from shortly after budbreak until about the time of pollination.1983, Thomas E. Mittler, Annual Review of Entomology, page 305. From the entry budbreak
  • BROWN LEAF SPOT Cercospora fusca Rand The brown leaf spot of the pecan is found generally distributed thruout the pecan-growing area.1917, H. Drew, Bulletin - Issues 140-175, page 145. From the entry brown leaf spot
  • The lucky finder of the pecan, or bean, or ring, which was hidden within was henceforth to be favored by fortune.1901, “Twelfth Night or King's Cake. Gateau du Roi.”, in The Picayune's Creole Cook Book, 2nd edition, New Orleans, La.: The Picayune…. From the entry king cake
  • I love a good glass of lemonade (and pecan pie, hamburgers, bread and butter pickles, and my mom’s spaghetti sauce; but those are other stories).2015, Robert Correll, Photo Restoration: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Peachpit Press, →ISBN. From the entry lemonadey
  • There, nestled in one of her gloved palms was a massive, blue-veined hooter with a pus-filled bump on it the size of a pecan.1994, Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-Tep, page 23. From the entry hooter
  • We honor foot-high pie, oatmeal pecan pie, “pake” (that’s a pie baked inside a cake), apple green chili pecan pie, levee-high pie and even gooey butter cake pie.2015 November 18, Patricia Corrigan, “Sweet! St. Louis thrives with pies”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 68, number 44, page 1B. From the entry pake
  • Pie specials include pumpkin, pumpkin crunch, pumpkin pecan, pumpkin haupia, gluten-free pumpkin pake (cake meets pie), pumpkin pake, cranberry walnut pudding, chocolate chip pecan and rum pecan.2014 November 21, The Garden Island, section “TGIFR!DAY” (volume 2, number 46), page 5. From the entry pake
  • Farther up the bank was a stand of pecans where a cat squirrel was taking bites of green nuts and dropping them to the ground to rot.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 18. From the entry cat squirrel
  • Nothing but blackjacks for miles around it, but on that section, because of the water, I suppose, there were elms and persimmons and cottonwoods and even a grove of pecans.1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 23. From the entry blackjack

Meaning of pecan

  1. noun A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
  2. noun A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
  3. noun A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.

Full definition of pecan

Questions about pecan in a sentence

How do you use pecan in a sentence?
Pecan is used as a noun. For example: “We can send you a hundred pounds a month of pecans to crack up.”
What is a short sentence with pecan?
“Doggonit, she made me waste my doggone pecan candy.”
What does pecan mean?
Pecan means a deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.

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