1
: any of several bitter-flavored hickory nuts
2
: a hickory (such as Carya glabra and C. cordiformis) bearing pignuts
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The panel at the back of the cab has his logo and is striped with pignut hickory, red cedar, cypress and white oak.
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Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
Look for the mature pignut and shagbark hickories.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 27 Nov. 2020
For drier sites, consider Eastern redcedar, hackberry, pignut hickory, American persimmon, sumacs and hophornbeam.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2022
Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
Look for the mature pignut and shagbark hickories.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 27 Nov. 2020
For drier sites, consider Eastern redcedar, hackberry, pignut hickory, American persimmon, sumacs and hophornbeam.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2022
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First Known Use
1666, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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