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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 picked up and counted my walnuts and hickory nuts.

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

On big old oaks or hickories, the resulting branch flagging is unsightly, but it’s a temporary eyesore that the tree will outgrow.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 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

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

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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