pecan tree

Questions about pecan tree

What does pecan tree mean?

pecan tree means "tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts".

What is another word for pecan tree?

Close synonyms include pecan, Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pecan tree a common word?

pecan tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.