PECAN NUT

a species of hickory nut, extensively grown in the West and South of the United States. It is agreeable in flavor, with a very sweet and oily meat, and, in the best "paper-shell" varieties, a shell that is easily cracked. It is generally olive-shaped, though some types are sharp-pointed and others blunt and somewhat four-angled. It ripens about December and is seasonable until April. See Color Page opposite 414 and also NUTS (Food Values).