hickory

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

Those same problems of slow growth and fast squirrels probably also explain why beech and hickory trees, heavily exploited as wild trees for their nuts by Europeans and Native Americans, respectively, were also not domesticated.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“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

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

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

They were like white bouquets God had stuck in the stands of ancient oaks and hickories, glistening green in their own new growth.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam