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pe⋅can

  [pi-kahn, -kan, pee-kan]
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1. a tall hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, cultivated for its oval, smooth-shelled, edible nuts: the state tree of Texas.
2. a nut of this tree.
Origin:
1765–75, Americanism; < Mississippi Valley F pacane < Illinois pakani < Proto-Algonquian *paka⋅n- nut (deriv. of *pake⋅- crack nuts)
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pe·can   (pĭ-kän', -kān', pē'kān)   
n.  
  1. A deciduous tree (Carya illinoinensis) of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
  2. The smooth, thin-shelled oval nut of this tree.

[North American French pacane, from Illinois pakani.]
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Pecan

Pe*can"\, n. [Cf. F. pacane the nut.] (Bot.) A species of hickory (Carya oliv[ae]formis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat. [Written also pacane.]
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pecan 
1712, paccan "the pecan tree," or a related hickory, from Fr. pacane, from Algonquian (cf. Cree pakan "hard-shelled nut," Ojibwa bagaan, Abnaki pagann).
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