Pecans Are a Species of This Type of Hardwood Tree

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Question is: Pecans Are a Species of This Type of Hardwood Tree

and the answer is: HICKORY

Word Meaning:

HICKORY — (countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.

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