hickory

English

hickory tree at Morton Arboretum

Finished hickory wood in a cabinet

Alternative forms

• hiccory, hickery, hickry, pokickery

Etymology

A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery, from an (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  language, probably (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Algonquin pawcohiccora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪkəɹiː/, /ˈhɪkɹiː/

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Adjective

hickory (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.

Noun

hickory (plural hickories)

1. Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genus Carya or .
2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees.

Translations

tree of genus Carya or Annamocarya

• Abenaki: bagimenakwam
• Catawba: ohneku
• Cherokee: ᏩᏁᎢ (wanei), ᏐᎯ (sohi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山核桃 (zh) (shān hétáo)

• Esperanto: hikorio
• Finnish: hikkori (fi)
• French: noyer blanc (fr) m, caryer (fr) m
• German: Hickorynussbaum m
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• Hawaiian: paukohikola
• Italian: noce americano
• Lenape: shimënshi
• Ojibwe: mitigwaabaak
• Portuguese: hicória f
• Romanian: hicori (ro) m
• Russian: ги́кори (ru) (gíkori), ка́рия (ru) f (kárija)
• Spanish: jicoria f, nogal americano m
• Swahili: mkarya
• Unami: tìtpanimënshi, shimënshi

wood of the tree

• Finnish: hikkori (fi)
• Swahili: ubao wa mkarya
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• Yup'ik: tupugaq

Derived terms

Derived terms

• brown hickory
• hickory cloth
• Hickory County
• hickory nut

• hickory shad
• swamp hickory