Paccan

Alternative forms

• pecan
• peccan

Origin

See pecan.

Full definition of paccan

Noun

1. Alternative form of pecan tree.
2. Alternative form of pecan nut.
• 1944 , Thomas Jefferson , Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book Chapter , … to send him some paccan nuts. … Jefferson in his reply wrote: "The Paccan nut is, as you conjecture the Illinois nut, ..., and enters into the Botanical name with is Juglans Paccan"
• 2004 , Frederic Rosengarten, Jr. , The Book of Edible Nuts Chapter Pecans , A creamy liquid called powcohicoria or "hickory milk" was prepared by the Algonquins: pacan kernals were pounded into small pieces, cast into boiling water, strained and stirred.