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山核桃

shān hé tao

3-character word

What 山核桃 means

1. hickory

The characters in 山核桃

• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 核hépit; stone; nucleus
• 桃táopeach

Example sentences

• 他讨厌任何山核桃口味的东西。
  He hates pecan-flavored anything.
• 玛莉在沙拉里放了一些烤山核桃。
  Mary put some roasted pecans into her salad.
• 我看到一棵老旧的空心山核桃树，周围有一些蜜蜂在飞。
  I saw an old and hollow pecan tree that had some bees flying around it.
• 植物学界众多争论之一是关于山核桃的问题——在我看来，它是水果，而不是坚果。
  One of many botanical debates regards the question of the pecan — To me, it's a fruit, and not a nut.
• 这两个民族都以鹿、小型猎物、啮齿动物甚至昆虫为生，但他们的主要食物来源可能是仙人掌、牧豆和山核桃等植物。
  Both peoples lived off deer, small game, rodents, and even insects, but their main food sources were probably plants such as prickly pear cactus, mesquite beans, and pecan.
• 位于乔治亚州瓦尔多斯塔的南乔治亚山核桃公司是世界上最大的山核桃生产商之一，公司副总裁杰夫沃恩指出，去年中国购买了约 3,100 万至 3,600 万公斤山核桃，占美国去年山核桃总产量的三分之一。他表示，这导致山核桃价格飙升。
  Jeff Worn, the Vice President of the South Georgia Pecan Company in Valdosta, Georgia, one of the largest pecan producers in the world, says the Chinese bought about 31 to 36 million kilograms last year, a third of the entire U.S. pecan crop last year. He says that has raised the price of pecans precipitously.