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Definition of pecans in English English dictionary
- pecan
- A deciduous tree Carya illinoinensis of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts
- pecan
- Pecans or pecan nuts are nuts with a thin, smooth shell that grow on trees in the southern United States and central America and that you can eat. a long thin sweet nut with a dark red shell, or the tree that it grows on (pacane, from an language). Nut and tree (Carya illinoinensis) of the walnut family, native to temperate North America. Occasionally reaching a height of about 160 ft (50 m), the tree has deeply furrowed bark and feather-shaped leaves. Pecan nut meat, rich and distinctive in flavour and texture, has one of the highest fat contents of any vegetable product and a caloric value close to that of butter. Pecan production is a considerable industry of the southeastern U.S., where pecan pie and pecan praline candy are traditional sweets
- pecan
- smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
- pecan
- tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts
- pecan
- The smooth, thin-shelled oval nut of this tree
- pecan
- A species of hickory (Carya olivæformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat
- pecan
- wood of a pecan tree
- pecan
- {i} type of nut; hickory tree
- pecan
- smooth brown oval nut of south central United States tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts wood of a pecan tree
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Turkish pronunciation
pıkänzPronunciation
/pəˈkänz/ /pəˈkɑːnz/
Etymology
[ pi-kän, -kan; pE-"kan ] (noun.) 1772. American French pacane, of Algonquian origin; akin to Ojibwa paka.n, a hard-shelled nut.Resimler
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