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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

And if they have never played with hickory clubs, it's great fun.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025

Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“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

More southern — and less colorful — species like oaks and hickories may march north, eventually replacing the maples and other exhibitionists.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2016

I made a sketch of the farm on my road map, and put x’s where the hickories were.

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


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