Noun: pecan
| Singular | pecan |
| Plural | pecans |
Sample Sentences
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And away on the farther bank, a motte of huge pecans, standing like giant sentinels over the dwarfed landscape, filled the eye with remote vistas in their shady, twilight aisles. It was very still. [1885, Howard Seely, A Ranchman's stories, page 154:]
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Within its ornamental fence, the 8/10-acre property includes several of the largest live oaks in the area — plus huge pecans and stately magnolias. [1978 April, Texas Monthly, page 51:]
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MEG. […] (Meg takes out two pecans and tries to open them by cracking them together.) Come on ... Crack, you demons! Crack!
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LENNY. We have a nutcracker!
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MEG. (Trying with her teeth.) Ah, where's the sport in a nutcracker? Where's the challenge? [1982, Beth Henley, Crimes of the heart, page 17:]
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Each shell contains two pecans, usually plump and oblong in shape, although some varieties are round or pointed. [2005, in The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Joseph Pizzorno, Lara Pizzorno; Atria Books]
Nouns inflected like pecan
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French pacane and at first spelt paccan. The French word derives from an Algonquian word, perhaps Miami (Illinois) pakani. Compare Cree pakan (“hard nut”), Ojibwe bagaan, Abenaki pagann, bagôn, pagôn (“nut; walnut, hazelnut”). See: French Nouns '
pacane'.
Verbs referencing "pecan"
German Nouns
Pekannuss, Swedish Nouns
pekannöt, Finnish Nouns
pekaani.