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Hickory

2 stages from Powhatan to English.

Today it means a North American hardwood tree that produces edible nuts
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pawcohiccora
Powhatan · pre-1600s
"a hickory-nut dish"
a dish made from pounded hickory nuts
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hickory
English · 1600s
"a North American nut-bearing tree"
shortened by English colonists in Virginia, later applied to the tree itself
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