Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Graves County, Kentucky, named for the hickory trees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Newton County, Mississippi, named for "Old Hickory" (Andrew Jackson).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
A city mostly in Catawba County, North Carolina, named after the Hickory Tavern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Murray County, Oklahoma.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships, listed under Hickory Township.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The wood of these trees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A coarse, durable cotton fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A club with a head made from hickory wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hickory tree
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nut tree
Narrower terms: water hickory, bitter pecan, water bitternut, Carya aquatica, pignut, pignut hickory, brown hickory, black hickory, Carya glabra, bitternut, bitternut hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, swamp hickory, Carya cordiformis, big shellbark, big shellbark hickory, big shagbark, king nut, king nut hickory, Carya laciniosa, nutmeg hickory, Carya myristicaeformis, Carya myristiciformis, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory, Carya ovata, mockernut, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory, big-bud hickory, Carya tomentosa
noun
valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wood
History
A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery, from Powhatan pawcohiccora.
Across languages
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
