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Several species of curculios, such as the butternut curculio [9] (Fig. 2) and the hickorynut curculio, [10] infest the fruit of these and other nut trees.
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Oh, what a lot of refreshments there were, including maple sugar, hickorynut ice cream and chocolate-covered carrots, and cornmeal made into little balls with cocoanut marshmallow on the outside, and candied cabbage leaves, and water-cress flavored with spearmint, and the land knows what!
Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble Howard Roger Garis 1917
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"She's been a terrible creature," he explained, wagging his hard old hickorynut head and clawing his beard with a kind of spiritual rapacity for devouring the worst of Sal's character.
A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902
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They found the Princess Langwidere in her mirrored chamber, where she was admiring one of her handsomest heads -- one with rich chestnut hair, dreamy walnut eyes and a shapely hickorynut nose.
Ozma of Oz 1887
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The rivers of Illinois were once rife with the orange-foot pimpleback and the cracking pearlymussel; spike and Wabash riffleshell; tubercled blossom and Higgins eye; winged mapleleaf and round hickorynut; pondhorn, pink papershell, pyramid pigtoe, paper pondshell, and purple lilliput.
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