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pecan noun

  /piːˈkæn/<aa:Canada,Australia,New Zealand,rarely US><ref:<<name:dialect>> !!! <<name:Canadian Oxford>> !!! '''2004''', ''{{w|Australian Oxford Dictionary}}''<<name:Aus Oxford>> !!! '''2005''', ''New Zealand Oxford Dictionary''<<name:NZ Oxford>>> , /piːˈkɑːn/<aa:most common <<US>> pronunciation except in New York, New England and coastal Southeast><ref:[http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_21.html The Dialect Survey], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130606184957/http://spark-1590165977.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/ Joshua Katz's maps of it]<<name:dialect>>> , /pəˈkɑːn/<aa:occasional US unstressed pronunciation><ref:<<name:Merriam-Webster>>> , /pəˈkɒn/<aa:Canada><ref:<<name:Canadian Oxford>>> , /pəˈkɔːn/ , /pɪˈkæn/<aa:UK,Canada,very rarely US><ref:Burkhard Dretzke, ''Modern British and American English pronunciation'' (2008) !!! <<name:Merriam-Webster>> !!! <<name:Gage>>> , /pɪˈkɑːn/<aa:Midwestern US><ref:<<name:dialect>>> , /pɪˈkɑːn/<aa:UK><ref:{{R:Dictionary.com}} !!! "[http://www.wordreference.com/definition/pecan pecan]" in the ''Concise Oxford English Dictionary'', 2008, WordReference.com<<name:COED>>> , /pɪˈkɔːn/ , /ˈpiːkæn/<aa:New York,New England,coastal southeastern <<Southern US>>><ref:<<name:dialect>> !!! {{R:Merriam Webster Online}}<<name:Merriam-Webster>>> , /ˈpiːkæn/<aa:UK,Australia,Canada><ref:Christopher Davies, ''Divided by a Common Language: A Guide to British and American English'' (2005-7) !!! '''1983''', ''{{w|Gage Canadian Dictionary}}''<<name:Gage>> !!! {{R:Canadian Oxford|edition=2nd|pecan|noun|1145}}<<name:Canadian Oxford>>> , /ˈpiːkɑːn/<aa:chiefly <<Upper Midwestern US>>><ref:<<name:dialect>>> , /ˈpiːkən/<aa:UK,Australia,New Zealand><ref:<<name:COED>> !!! <<name:Aus Oxford>> !!! <<name:NZ Oxford>>> , /ˈpɪkæn/<aa:uncommon coastal <<New England>> variant><ref:<<name:dialect>>>
  • A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
pacane, noix de pécan, pacanier
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