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語源

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”).

発音

• (米国発音)
  • IPA: /piːˈkɑːn/ (most common 米国発音 pronunciation except in New York, New England and coastal Southeast)
  • IPA: /pɪˈkɑːn/ (Midwestern 米国発音)

  • IPA: /ˈpiːkæn/ (New York, New England, coastal southeastern Southern 米国発音)

  • IPA: /ˈpiːkɑːn/ (chiefly Upper Midwestern 米国発音)
  • IPA: /ˈpɪkæn/ (uncommon coastal New England variant)
  • IPA: /pəˈkɔːn/, /pɪˈkɔːn/ (Louisiana)
  • IPA: /pəˈkɑːn/ (occasional 米国発音 unstressed pronunciation)

• (Commonwealth)
  • IPA: /pɪˈkɑːn/ (英国発音)
  • IPA: /ˈpiːkæn/ (英国発音, General Australian, Canada)

  • IPA: /piːˈkæn/ (Canada, General Australian, New Zealand, rarely 米国発音)
  • IPA: /pɪˈkæn/ (英国発音, Canada, very rarely 米国発音)
  • IPA: /ˈpiːkən/ (英国発音, General Australian, New Zealand)

  • IPA: /pəˈkɒn/ (Canada)

• ハイフネーション: pe‧can

名詞

pecan (plural pecans)

1. A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
   • 1885, Howard Seely, A Ranchman's stories, page 154:

     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.

   • 1978 April, Texas Monthly, page 51:

     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.

2. A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
   • 1982, Beth Henley, Crimes of the heart, page 17:

     MEG. […] (Meg takes out two pecans and tries to open them by cracking them together.) Come on ... Crack, you demons! Crack!
     LENNY. We have a nutcracker!
     MEG. (Trying with her teeth.) Ah, where's the sport in a nutcracker? Where's the challenge?

3. A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.
   • 2005, in The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Joseph Pizzorno, Lara Pizzorno; Atria Books, →ISBN:

     Each shell contains two pecans, usually plump and oblong in shape, although some varieties are round or pointed.

派生語

参照

Further reading

• pecan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Capen, NEACP, pance