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Pecan

//piːˈkɑːn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.

    "And away on the farther bank, a motte of huge pecans, standing like giant sentinels over the dwarfed landscape, filled the eye with remote vistas in their shady, twilight aisles. It was very still."

  2. 2
    smooth brown oval nut of south central United States wordnet
  3. 3
    A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.

    "MEG. […] (Meg takes out two pecans and tries to open them by cracking them together.) Come on ... Crack, you demons! Crack! LENNY. We have a nutcracker! MEG. (Trying with her teeth.) Ah, where's the sport in a nutcracker? Where's the challenge?"

  4. 4
    tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts wordnet
  5. 5
    A 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."

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  1. 6
    wood of a pecan tree wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French pacane and at first spelt paccan. The French word derives from an Algonquian word, perhaps Miami (Illinois) pakani. Compare Cree pakan (“hard nut”), Ojibwe bagaan, Abenaki pagann, bagôn, pagôn (“nut; walnut, hazelnut”).

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