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  • Several species of curculios, such as the butternut curculio [9] (Fig. 2) and the hickorynut curculio, [10] infest the fruit of these and other nut trees.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950

  • Oh, what a lot of refreshments there were, including maple sugar, hickorynut ice cream and chocolate-covered carrots, and cornmeal made into little balls with cocoanut marshmallow on the outside, and candied cabbage leaves, and water-cress flavored with spearmint, and the land knows what!

    Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • "She's been a terrible creature," he explained, wagging his hard old hickorynut head and clawing his beard with a kind of spiritual rapacity for devouring the worst of Sal's character.

    A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902

  • They found the Princess Langwidere in her mirrored chamber, where she was admiring one of her handsomest heads -- one with rich chestnut hair, dreamy walnut eyes and a shapely hickorynut nose.

    Ozma of Oz 1887

  • The rivers of Illinois were once rife with the orange-foot pimpleback and the cracking pearlymussel; spike and Wabash riffleshell; tubercled blossom and Higgins eye; winged mapleleaf and round hickorynut; pondhorn, pink papershell, pyramid pigtoe, paper pondshell, and purple lilliput.

    Zach Klein Universal Feed 2010

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