Definitions for hickory
ˈhɪk ə ri, ˈhɪk rihick·o·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. hickorynoun

   valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees

2. hickory, hickory treenoun

   American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hickorynoun

   Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genus Carya or Annamocarya.

2. hickorynoun

   The wood of this tree.

3. hickoryadjective

   Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.

4. Etymology: From Algonquin pawcohiccora.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hickory

   Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus Carya, which includes around 18 species. Five or six species are native to China, Indochina, and India (Assam), as many as twelve are native to the United States, four are found in Mexico, and two to four are native to Canada. A number of hickory species are used for products like edible nuts or wood. Hickories are temperate forest trees with pinnately compound leaves and large nuts. Hickory flowers are small, yellow-green catkins produced in spring. They are wind-pollinated and self-incompatible. The fruit is a globose or oval nut, 2–5 cm (0.8–2.0 in) long and 1.5–3 cm (0.6–1.2 in) diameter, enclosed in a four-valved husk, which splits open at maturity. The nut shell is thick and bony in most species, and thin in a few, notably the pecan (C. illinoinensis); it is divided into two halves, which split apart when the seed germinates.

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1. hickory

   The term "hickory" refers to any one of around 18 species of deciduous trees belonging to the genus Carya, native to North America and East Asia. These trees are known for their hard, dense, and shock-resistant wood, which is used for items such as tool handles, furniture, and flooring. Some species produce edible nuts, commonly used in cooking or smoked for flavor. The wood is also often used for smoking, curing, and barbecuing meats due to its unique flavor contribution.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Hickorynoun

   an American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter

2. Etymology: [North American Indian pawcohiccora (Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from pounded hickory nuts. Pohickory is named in a list of Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to hickory. J. H. Trumbull.]

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1. Hickory

   Hickory is a type of tree, comprising the genus Carya. The genus includes 17–19 species of deciduous trees with pinnately compound leaves and big nuts. Five or six species are native to China, Indochina, and India, 11 or 12 are from the United States, two to four are from Canada and four are found in Mexico. Hickory flowers are small, yellow-green catkins produced in spring. They are wind-pollinated and self-incompatible. The fruit is a globose or oval nut, 2–5 cm long and 1.5–3 cm diameter, enclosed in a four-valved husk, which splits open at maturity. The nut shell is thick and bony in most species, and thin in a few, notably C. illinoinensis; it is divided into two halves, which split apart when the seed germinates. Beaked hickory is a species formerly classified as Carya sinensis, but now adjudged in the monotypic genus Annamocarya.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hickory

   hik′or-i, n. a genus (Carva) of North American nut-bearing trees, with heavy strong tenacious wood, used for shafts of carriages, handles of axes, &c. [Pohickery; of Indian origin.]

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hickory

   See “Old Hickory.”

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1. HICKORY

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hickory is ranked #111426 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Hickory surname appeared 158 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Hickory.
   
   93% or 147 total occurrences were White.

Matched Categories

1. • Nut Tree
   • Wood

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hickory in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hickory in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of hickory in a Sentence

1. Donald Duncan:

   In 1997 we were the fastest growing manufacturing metro area in the country and four years later it collapsed, what you can see on the ground today is 3,000 job openings. China's emergence as the world's low-cost producer and export superpower following its World Trade Organization entry in 2001 dealt a heavy blow to traditional industrial communities such as Hickory. Economists David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson have tried to separate the impact of trade from other factors affecting U.S. manufacturing employment and they estimate that between 1990 and 2007 Hickory lost 16 percent of its manufacturing jobs just due to surging imports from China. DEEP SCARS. Buffeted by other headwinds, such as the 1994 North American Free Trade agreement and the lifting of textile quotas in 2004, the area lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs overall, half the total, between 2000 and 2009. Nationally, more than 5 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since 2000, a period that also included the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The collapse left deep and still visible scars that help explain the appeal of Trump's pledge to bring back manufacturing's glory days. In Hickory, disability rolls soared more than 50 percent between 2000 and 2014, swollen by older workers who struggled to return to the workforce. At the same time, the share of the 25-34 year old in the population fell by almost a fifth between 2000 and 2010. Consequently, even as the unemployment rate tumbled from a peak above 15 percent in 2010 to 4.6 percent today, below the national average, so did the labor force participation rate. It fell from above 68 percent in 2000 to below 59 percent in 2014. Poverty levels doubled. Yet the manufacturing upswing in areas that suffered the most during the downturn is evident. Rust belt states, such as Michigan, Indiana and Ohio that may prove pivotal in the Nov. 8 presidential election, have been adding manufacturing jobs faster than the economy as a whole. Michigan, for example, which lost nearly half of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2009, has since then seen a 25 percent rise, well above the 4 percent gain nationally. Manufacturing employment there is still well below the levels in the 1990s. Economists debate whether returning to that level is realistic given technological advances that have reduced manufacturing's share of the workforce from a high of above 30 percent in the 1950s to around 8 percent today. But they also feel that have already seen the bottom, particularly when it comes to China's impact.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hickory
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hickory
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hickory
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hickory
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=hickory
8. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=hickory
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hickory