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Definition of Hickories
1. hickory [n] - See also: hickory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hickories
Literary usage of Hickories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1888)
"All the hickories are extensively used in North-America ... Richest of all
North-American trees in potash, in which most hickories abound. ..."
2. Studies of Trees in Winter: A Description of the Deciduous Trees of by Annie Oakes Huntington (1902)
"Both walnuts and hickories are valuable timber trees, and the nuts of several
species are sweet and edible. Two genera of this family are found in America ..."
3. The Important Timber Trees of the United States: A Manual of Practical by Simon Bolivar Elliott (1912)
"THE hickories THERE are twelve species of hickories known to botanists and they
are all indigenous to North America. None can be found growing naturally ..."
4. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1856)
"THE hickories are peculiarly an American genus of trees, being very generally
... A large proportion of the hickories send up a single shaft like ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The hickories are exclusively North American. ... The hickories are found from
Maine to Florida and west to Minnesota, Kansas, and Texas, and extending into ..."
6. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1914)
"XVIII APRIL, 1914 Our Home Under the hickories By Eleanor W. Coleman IT was in
a little fishing village that we found our home,—• a village that felt itself ..."
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