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noun, plural -los.
1.
any of several trees of the genus Nyssa, having ovate leaves, clusters of minute flowers, and purple, berrylike fruit, especially N. aquatica, of swampy regions of the eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S.
2.
the soft, light wood of these trees.
Origin:
1720–30, Americanism; perhaps < Creek *’topilwa literally, swamp tree (equivalent to íto tree + opílwa swamp)
1720–30, Americanism; perhaps < Creek *’topilwa literally, swamp tree (equivalent to íto tree + opílwa swamp)
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Tupelos
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tupelo
black gum tree, 1730, apparently from Cree (Algonquian) ito opilwa "swamp tree."
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