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Definition of Pecan tree
1. Noun. Tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts.
Terms within: Pecan
Group relationships: Carya, Genus Carya
Terms within: Pecan
Generic synonyms: Nut Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pecan Tree
Literary usage of Pecan tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1894)
"I found the pecan tree growing down in a place where the water was an overflow
from the high tide. It was brackish water. That was my opinion. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"Pecan-Tree Borer Sesia scitula Harris. Description The adult form Is a beautiful,
... Injuries of the Pecan-Tree Borer The peach tree borer confines itself ..."
3. The New Horticulture by H. M. Stringfellow (1906)
"I take it that every one knows that a pecan tree produced from a nut will, in
the end, make a much more vigorous growth than a tree transplanted with long ..."
4. Transactions of the American Horticultural Society by American Horticultural Society, Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society (1883)
"THE pecan tree. BY DR. CHARLES MOHR, OF ALABAMA. ... The pecan tree prefers,
naturally, the cool, damp bottom lands of a deep, rich soil, not subject to ..."
5. Human Geography by Joseph Russell Smith (1922)
"Here and there, one pecan tree in many hundreds bears especially good nuts, with
thin shells, ... The pecan tree grows to be a hundred feet high. ..."
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