hickory-nut

And so, we did: We put the ashes in the hole with each tree, and then covered the roots with fresh soil -- an oak, a scarlet maple, and a hickory-nut tree (one day, readers, I will share her famous hickory-nut cake recipe with you all!).

Maria Rodale: My Mother's Ashes 2010

And so, we did: We put the ashes in the hole with each tree, and then covered the roots with fresh soil -- an oak, a scarlet maple, and a hickory-nut tree (one day, readers, I will share her famous hickory-nut cake recipe with you all!).

My Mother's Ashes 2010

It is of a brilliant gold color — about the size of a large hickory-nut — with two jet black spots near one extremity of the back, and another, somewhat longer, at the other.

The Gold-Bug 2006

From the second shell one of the shrapnel bullets dropped on my wrist, hardly breaking the skin, but raising a bump about as big as a hickory-nut.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

The man who was curious as to the dame's remembrances was a small stout person whose arms and legs did not seem to belong to him, and whose face was strangely gnarled, like the odd face a boy might carve on a hickory-nut, but withal a visage pleasant and ruddy.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

It is of a brilliant gold color -- about the size of a large hickory-nut -- with two jet black spots near one extremity of the back, another, somewhat longer, at the other.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

Hailstones came down in sizes from that of a hickory-nut to a large apple, some with such force as to drive them through the cloth awnings.

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

Do you suppose we could get him to be a king to lead for the finest in tree planting, grafted hickory-nut trees?

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934

The life cycle of the hickory-nut weevil is similar to that of the larger chestnut-weevil, and that of the hazel-nut weevil is like that of the lesser chestnut weevil.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924

The hickory-nut weevil does not attack hazel-nuts nor the hazel-nut weevil hickory-nuts.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924