different between hardwood vs hickory

English

Alternative forms

• hard wood

Etymology

hard +? wood

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??d?w?d/

Noun

hardwood (countable and uncountable, plural hardwoods)

1. (countable, mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.

2. (countable) (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
3. (countable, forestry) The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.

4. (uncountable) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.

5. (sports, slang) The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.

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Adjective

hardwood (not comparable)

1. Of a floor: made of interlocking hardwood boards.

See also

• softwood

English

Alternative forms

• hiccory, hickery, hickry, pokickery

Etymology

A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery, from an Algonquian language, probably Ojibwe/Algonquin pawcohiccora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?k??i?/, /?h?k?i?/
• Rhymes: -?k??i

Adjective

hickory (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.

Noun

hickory (plural hickories)

1. Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genus Carya or Annamocarya.
2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees.

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