different between hickory vs pignut

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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English

Etymology

pig +? nut

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??n?t/

Noun

pignut (plural pignuts)

1. The edible tuber of Conopodium majus, native to western Europe.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;

     And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Judgement of Dungara’, Black and White, Folio Society 2004, vol. 1, p. 382:

     Justus partially overcame their scruples against work, and taught them that the black earth was rich in other produce than pignuts only.

2. (US) Any of various types of hickory or their fruits; a hognut.
3. Simmondsia chinensis, jojoba.

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• gun pit