HICKORY
Hickory
Hickory is a type of tree, comprising the genus Carya . The genus includes 17–19 species of deciduous trees with pinnately compound leaves and big nuts. Five or six species are native to China, Indochina, and India, 11 or 12 are from the United States, two to four are from Canada and four are found in Mexico. Hickory flowers are small, yellow-green catkins produced in spring. They are wind-pollinated and self-incompatible. The fruit is a globose or oval nut, long and diameter, enclosed in a four-valved husk, which splits open at maturity. The nut shell is thick and bony in most species, and thin in a few, notably C.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Hickory
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hickory
Noun
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.
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