85 relations: Africa, Agricultural Research Service, Algonquin language, American English, Asia, B vitamins, British English, Brownwood, Texas, Calorie, Candy, Carya cordiformis, Carya laciniosa, Carya ovata, Carya tomentosa, College Station, Texas, Cretaceous, Cuisine of the Southern United States, Cultivar, Deciduous, Dietary fiber, Drupe, Elliot Pecan, Engelhardia, Enzyme, Eocene, Europe, Fat, Florida, Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim, Fruit, Genus, George Washington, Georgia (U.S. state), Hardiness zone, Hican, Hickory, Iron, Juglandaceae, Juglans, Karl Koch (botanist), Leaf, Linoleic acid, List of U.S. state and territory trees, Louisiana, Magnesium, Manganese, Mexico, Monounsaturated fat, Morton Arboretum, Mount Vernon, ..., Muséum de Toulouse, New Mexico, Nickel, Nut (fruit), Oleic acid, Paleogene, Pecan pie, Pecan scab, Phosphorus, Pinnation, Polyunsaturated fat, Praline, Protein, Puerto Rico, Reference Daily Intake, Rock (geology), San Saba, Texas, Seed, Self-incompatibility, Sequential hermaphroditism, Southeastern United States, Southern United States, Spain, St. Marys, Georgia, Subtropics, Texas, Thiamine, Thomas Jefferson, Ton, Tree, United States Department of Agriculture, University of Georgia, Walnut, William Bartram, Zinc. Expand index (35 more) »
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Agricultural Research Service
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Algonquin language
Algonquin (also spelled Algonkin; in Algonquin: Anicinàbemowin or Anishinàbemiwin) is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect.
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American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Asia
Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.
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B vitamins
B vitamins are a class of water-soluble vitamins that play important roles in cell metabolism.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Brownwood, Texas
Brownwood is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Texas, United States.
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Calorie
A calorie is a unit of energy.
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Candy
Candy, also called sweets or lollies, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient.
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Carya cordiformis
Carya cordiformis, the bitternut hickory, also called bitternut or swamp hickory, is a large pecan hickory with commercial stands located mostly north of the other pecan hickories.
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Carya laciniosa
Carya laciniosa, the shellbark hickory, in the Juglandaceae or walnut family is also called shagbark hickory, bigleaf shagbark hickory, kingnut, big, bottom, thick, or western shellbark, attesting to some of its characteristics.
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Carya ovata
Carya ovata, the shagbark hickory, is a common hickory in the Eastern United States and southeast Canada.
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Carya tomentosa
Carya tomentosa, (mockernut hickory, mockernut, white hickory, whiteheart hickory, hognut, bullnut) is a tree in the Juglandaceae or walnut family.
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College Station, Texas
College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in East-Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley, in the center of the region known as Texas Triangle.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Cuisine of the Southern United States
The cuisine of the Southern United States developed in the traditionally defined American South, influenced by African, English, Scottish, Irish, French, Spanish, and Native American cuisines.
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Cultivar
The term cultivarCultivar has two denominations as explained in Formal definition.
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Deciduous
In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.
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Dietary fiber
Dietary fiber or roughage is the indigestible portion of food derived from plants.
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Drupe
In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pit, stone, or pyrene) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside.
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Elliot Pecan
The Elliot Pecan, or Elliott Pecan, is a pecan variety planted predominately in Georgia and Florida.
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Engelhardia
Engelhardia is a genus of seven species of trees in the family Juglandaceae, native to southeast Asia from northern India east to Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Enzyme
Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysts.
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Eocene
The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Fat
Fat is one of the three main macronutrients, along with carbohydrate and protein.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim
Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim (February 8, 1749 Sonneborn – March 25, 1800 Gumbinnen) was a German botanist specializing in forestry, and was the citing authority for a number of described eastern North American plant species.
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732 –, 1799), known as the "Father of His Country," was an American soldier and statesman who served from 1789 to 1797 as the first President of the United States.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Hardiness zone
A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined to encompass a certain range of climatic conditions relevant to plant growth and survival.
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Hican
A hican is a tree resulting from a cross between a pecan and some other type of hickory (members of the genus Carya) - or the nut from such a hybrid tree.
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Hickory
Hickory is a type of tree, comprising the genus Carya (κάρυον, káryon, meaning "nut").
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
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Juglandaceae
The Juglandaceae are a family, known as the walnut family, of trees, or sometimes shrubs, in the order Fagales.
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Juglans
Walnut trees are any species of tree in the plant genus Juglans, the type genus of the family Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are referred to as walnuts.
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Karl Koch (botanist)
Karl Heinrich Emil Koch (6 June 1809 – 25 May 1879) was a German botanist.
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Leaf
A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.
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Linoleic acid
Linoleic acid (LA), a carboxylic acid, is a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid, an 18-carbon chain with two double bonds in cis configuration.
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List of U.S. state and territory trees
This is a list of U.S. state and territory trees, including official trees of the following states and U.S. territories (and the District of Columbia).
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Louisiana
Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element with symbol Mg and atomic number 12.
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Manganese
Manganese is a chemical element with symbol Mn and atomic number 25.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Monounsaturated fat
In biochemistry and nutrition, monounsaturated fatty acids (abbreviated MUFAs, or more plainly monounsaturated fats) are fatty acids that have one double bond in the fatty acid chain with all of the remainder carbon atoms being single-bonded.
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Morton Arboretum
The Morton Arboretum, in Lisle, Illinois, is a public garden and outdoor museum with a library, herbarium, and program in tree research including the Center for Tree Science.
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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon was the plantation house of George Washington, the first President of the United States, and his wife, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington.
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Muséum de Toulouse
The Muséum de Toulouse, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la ville de Toulouse (abbreviation: MHNT) is a museum of natural history in Toulouse, France.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.
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Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.
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Nut (fruit)
A nut is a fruit composed of an inedible hard shell and a seed, which is generally edible.
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Oleic acid
Oleic acid is a fatty acid that occurs naturally in various animal and vegetable fats and oils.
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Paleogene
The Paleogene (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Mya.
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Pecan pie
Pecan pie is a pie of pecan nuts mixed with a filling of eggs, butter, and sugar (typically corn syrup).
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Pecan scab
Pecan scab is the most economically significant disease of pecan trees (Carya illinoinensis) in the southeastern United States.
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Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element with symbol P and atomic number 15.
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Pinnation
Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising from both sides of a common axis.
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Polyunsaturated fat
Polyunsaturated fats are fats in which the constituent hydrocarbon chain possesses two or more carbon–carbon double bonds.
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Praline
Praline (New Orleans, Cajun and) is a form of confection containing at a minimum nuts and sugar; cream is a common third ingredient.
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Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Reference Daily Intake
The Reference Daily Intake (RDI) is the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States.
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Rock (geology)
Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.
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San Saba, Texas
San Saba is a city located in Central Texas.
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Seed
A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.
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Self-incompatibility
Self-incompatibility (SI) is a general name for several genetic mechanisms in angiosperms, which prevent self-fertilization and thus encourage outcrossing and allogamy.
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Sequential hermaphroditism
Sequential hermaphroditism (called dichogamy in botany) is a type of hermaphroditism that occurs in many fish, gastropods, and plants.
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Southeastern United States
The Southeastern United States (Sureste de Estados Unidos, Sud-Est des États-Unis) is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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St. Marys, Georgia
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Subtropics
The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.
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Thiamine
Thiamine, also known as thiamin or vitamin B1, is a vitamin found in food, and manufactured as a dietary supplement and medication.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
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Ton
The ton is a unit of measure.
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Tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.
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United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.
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University of Georgia
The University of Georgia, also referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American public comprehensive research university.
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Walnut
A walnut is the nut of any tree of the genus Juglans (Family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, Juglans regia.
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William Bartram
William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American naturalist.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecan