(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(2) A commercial hickory smoke condensate (HSC) was evaluated for its tumour-initiating and promoting activities in the glandular stomach using short-term methods in vivo.
(3) The rats produced IgE antibodies to each of the allergens used (maple, willow, poplar, ash, oak, sycamore, hickory, walnut, birch, and elm), yet the allergens had extremely limited cross-reactivity.
(4) Deciduous trees growing in a natural forest on the hillsides downslope from the site were sampled for the presence of tritiated water in sap of maple trees and in leaf water extracted from oak and hickory trees.
(5) • 101 Hickory Street, Denton, Texas 76201, theabbeyinndenton.com Rob Curran The Dubliner, La Paz, Bolivia You might think a shopping centre would be a strange place to find a decent Irish pub, but so it is in the Bolivian capital.
(6) The year started with Alabama governor George Wallace standing on the steps of the state capitol in hickory-striped trousers and a cutaway coat declaring: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation for ever."
(7) Every handle of every tool was once made from ash (until hickory was imported from the US), and ash was widely used in gates and cartwheels.
(8) That Halloween, many parents in Hickory Creek stopped their kids from going trick or treating, because the air was so bad.
(9) At a bucolic-sounding new subdivision called Meadows at Hickory Creek, the middle-class suburban American dream collides with the Lone Star State’s business-first approach to energy regulation.
(10) Pollen extracts of Box Elder, Willow and Hickory elicited the highest allergic reactions, Oak, Birch, Sycamore, Black Walnut and Poplar more moderate reactions, while allergens from Cottonwood, Maple, Elm and White Ash were less reactive.
(11) Hickory-smoke condensate (HSC) is a popular food flavouring in the USA.
(12) It was delivered in a year that started with Alabama governor George Wallace standing on the steps of the state capitol in hickory-striped pants and a cutaway coat declaring, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” and ended with President Kennedy’s assassination.
(13) Soon after the ordinance came in, in the summer of 2013, oil drillers began to frack two wells near a new suburban development, the Meadows at Hickory Creek, which is full of young families.
(14) Bone Doggie and the Hickory Street Hellraisers at the Denton Arts and Jazz festival.
(15) Concentrations of 226Ra and 224Ra in 13 wells distributed throughout McCulloch and Mason counties in the Hickory Aquifer of the Llano Uplift Region of West-Central Texas are reported.
(16) Six Foods is using $70,000, which it raised on crowdfunding website Kickstarter, to produce and package sea salt, aged cheddar and hickory BBQ flavored Chirps, which it plans to deliver to US grocery stores in October.
Walnut
Definition:
(n.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two years after the surgery, a cystic lesion the size of a walnut was observed in the TMJ region.
(2) Put the walnuts, garlic, coriander, and onion in a food processor and grind until fine – do not pulverise into a fine powder as the stuffing should retain a nice crunch.
(3) We have evaluated the radioallergosorbent test (RAST) for the in vitro measurement of the specific IgE antibodies to nuts, including Brazil nut, almond, walnut, pecan, cashew, and the legume, peanut.
(4) This case of an intracardiac myxoma observed in a 15 year old girl had several points of interest: the mode of presentation: the clinical signs were exclusively systemic and articular; the mode of diagnosis: 2D echocardiography demonstrated an immobile, dense mass about the size of a walnut implanted on the ventricular surface of the posterior mitral leaflet along the whole of its base and seemingly adherent to the ventricular wall; the intraventricular location of the tumour (exceptionally rare) and its mitral valve origin.
(5) The rats produced IgE antibodies to each of the allergens used (maple, willow, poplar, ash, oak, sycamore, hickory, walnut, birch, and elm), yet the allergens had extremely limited cross-reactivity.
(6) Robb said some goods in the agricultural area were deemed by Korean negotiators to be “too sensitive” and the parties had made no progress on rice, walnuts and honey.
(7) 3 Heat the butter in a pan until foaming, add the walnuts, cook for 5 minutes until golden, add the demerara sugar, then cook until it has melted and coated the nuts.
(8) The effect of aqueous extract of black walnut on vascular contractility was then tested, using isolated equine digital arteries and veins.
(9) 3 Spoon into a bowl and sprinkle with the cayenne pepper and the honey-glazed walnuts, plus extra cheese if you like.
(10) There was a walnut sized mass on the right vagal nerve at just peripheral side of the recurrent nerve branch.
(11) The Walnut Creek Study in 1980 was unable to demonstrate a higher frequency of migraine headache in OC users discharged from the hospital as compared with nonusers.
(12) The Gastronomy of Italy by Anna del Conte (Pavilion) Crispy apple dumplings with walnut butter and anise cream Braeburn and granny smith apples bring flavour and texture.
(13) Porridge with blue cheese and honey-roasted walnuts Columbiahillen's porridge adapts a Transylvanian recipe, turning the decidedly non-traditional combination of blue cheese, walnuts and honey into a comforting lunch or breakfast.
(14) A walnut-sized, pedunculated papilloma was removed by transvesical extirpation.
(15) Sift over some icing sugar to lightly dust the top, then lay the walnut pieces down the centre, securing with the reserved butter icing.
(16) They grew on until reaching nearly the size of a walnut.
(17) Micropropagated shoots of three forest tree species, poplar (Populus tremula x P. alba), wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) and walnut (Juglans nigra x J. regia), were inoculated each with six different wild-type Agrobacterium strains.
(18) Spread the walnut and orange butter over the surface of the dough, then roll lengthways into a thick sausage.
(19) (NB If you can't find dried shrimp, available from oriental grocers, add fish sauce to taste – FC) Bobby Ananta, Leicester, bobbyananta.com Makes 4 large portions 1 pomelo (about 2kg) 1 cucumber 1 sour mango 1 pomegranate Juice of 2 limes Coriander leaves and fried peanuts, to serve For the bumbu rujak dressing 2 red chillies 5 tbsp palm sugar 2 tbsp caster sugar 1 tsp salt 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar 4 tbsp walnut oil Juice of 1 lime 5 dried shrimp, fried 1 Cut the peel from the pomelo and break up the flesh into large pieces with your fingers.
(20) He had large positive skin tests (scratch) to walnuts and peanuts.