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hickory

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


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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

Players can use a set of hickory clubs and see footage, photographs and memorabilia related to Bobby's exploits.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2025

I would have hickory nuts in the fall.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

“I estimated through my work that it would literally take centuries for native forests” full of oaks, walnuts, hickories and tulip poplars to return, he says.

From Washington Post Feb. 13, 2020

He says certain trees like scarlet oaks and hickories have potential for colorful displays if they get rain in early October.

From Washington Times Oct. 1, 2019

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

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

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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