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hickory

[hik-uh-ree, hik-ree] / ˈhɪk ə ri, ˈhɪk ri /


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I like their sandwiches, or the hickory burger with cheese, and there’s good French fries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

And Joq is genuinely fascinated by the way hickory smoke mellows and rounds out a pungent blue cheese.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

The kitchen also follows the same aesthetic as the rest of the home and is adorned in wood cabinetry, a wooden island, and hand-hewn hickory flooring.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025

Customers are increasingly being lured by brands like TimberTech, which dispense with wood altogether in favor of polyvinyl chloride patterned to resemble mahogany, teak, or hickory.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

The beechnuts are abundant this year, and so are the hickory and butter nuts, but the acorn crop is poor.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Surrounded by tall hickories, ash and oak, it is mostly covered in shade, a condition not ideal for grass.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2019

Its steep walls are lined with hardwoods, oaks, hickories and maples still dropping amber leaves.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2016

As a whole, the deciduous forest was home to many different tree species—oaks, beeches, maples, basswoods, hickories, chestnut, ashes, elms, birches and poplars—but different types of trees predominated in different regions.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2014

As wind and age topple the massive oaks, hickories and poplars that make up the canopy, or overstory, no young trees survive to replace them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2012

Gypsy moths arrived in 1983 and have since ravaged considerable acreages of oaks and hickories.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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