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Vitamins Gone Gummy

By ABBY ELLIN

Vitamin makers have discovered that consumers have a sweet tooth for gummy candy versions of their products.

No Pecan Pie? Thank China, Rain and Pigs

By KIM SEVERSON

A rare collision of ill-timed rain, wild animals, and a growing love affair between China and the pecan has led to the worst supply in years, and grocery store prices are up by about 30 percent.

"It's like the world doesn't want us to make pralines."

ANNA BUTLER, who balked at paying $15.99 a pound for pecans, which are in short supply this year.

Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit, a fan of pecan pie, has something of a sweet tooth. And last week he seemed to be channeling his inner child. "Being at Citi reminds me of being in a candy store. We have everything, so whatever you want, we can offer it to you," he told students during his passage to his home country of India last week. That's something of an update from Citi's old financial-supermarket concept.

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Praline

Praline can refer to confections made from nuts and sugar syrup, whether in whole pieces or a ground powder, or to any chocolate cookie containing the ground powder or nuts. Wikipedia

praline

 

音節

pra • line

発音

prɑ'ːliːn

pralineの変化形

pralines (複数形)

[名][C][U]プラリーヌ：アーモンド・ピーカンなどを砂糖で煮詰めて固めたキャンディー.

swéet tòoth[swéet tòoth]((a 〜))甘党.
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Homemade pecan pie

A slice of pecan pie

For the film, see Pecan Pie (film).

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pecan

碧根果果仁

碧根果，又名美國山核桃、長壽果，為薄皮長橢圓形堅果，果樹（學名Carya illinoinensis）原產於北美大陸中南部。「碧根」一名是源於北美土著語言的英語Pecan的音譯。

pecan

Syllabification: (pe·can)

Pronunciation: /pəˈkän, ˈpēˌkan/

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noun

• a smooth brown nut with an edible kernel similar to a walnut.
  

  • This nut is obtained from a hickory tree (Carya illinoensis, family Juglandaceae), native to the southern US

Origin:

late 18th century: from French pacane, from Illinois (an American Indian language)

eyetooth 

Syllabification: eye·tooth

Pronunciation: /ˈīˈˌto͞oTH

 

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noun

• a canine tooth, especially one in the upper jaw.  犬牙
  

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  • What would the difference be between the left eye tooth and the right eye tooth?
  • He smiled a dark smile showing a mouth full of pearl white teeth with a set of elongated eye teeth and canines and held out his hand.
  • He drew his mouth back into a sneer, revealing his menacing canine eye teeth.
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Phrases

give one's eyeteeth for (or to be)

do anything in order to have or be something: I’d give my eyeteeth for a lover

More example sentences

• Two intelligent, independent individuals share their lives and a relationship which many couples would give their eye teeth for.
• Her childhood was one any novelist would give his eye teeth for.
• There are certainly no fillers amongst this lot; even the drum solo number sounds like something most bands would give their eye teeth for.