tupelo
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.
the soft, light wood of these trees.
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a city in NE Mississippi.
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How to use tupelo in a sentence
You can paddle serene river floodplains, pick up some tupelo honey at a roadside stand, and cool off in Wakulla Springs, one of the largest and deepest freshwater springs in the world.
What the hell, he already had enough judgments against him to pave the road to tupelo.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis | Richard Ben Cramer | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the early 2000s, Dutschke joined a tupelo studio called Kinetic Kick owned by Noel McMichael.
“tupelo is a very small town in the middle of the Bible Belt,” McMichael said.
Republican Roger Wicker of tupelo has now cruised easily to re-election to a full term in the US Senate.
Raymond promptly stole it from a church parking lot during Wednesday night prayer meeting and sold it to a chop shop near tupelo.
There are three varieties of tents—sponge, laminaria, and tupelo.
He knew but one kind of tupelo, as he knew but one kind of "ellum."
Spring notes from Tennessee | Bradford TorreyBragg, who had succeeded Beauregard in command, sent one division from tupelo on the twenty-seventh of June for the same place.
The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume II (of 2) | George Cary EgglestonHis home is no inaccessible den among the ledges; only a hollow in some ancient oak or tupelo.
After the battle of tupelo he volunteered to remain with the wounded, of whom there were about sixty, in the hands of the enemy.
Fifty Years In The Northwest | William Henry Carman Folsom
British Dictionary definitions for tupelo
/ (ˈtjuːpɪˌləʊ) /
any of several cornaceous trees of the genus Nyssa, esp N. aquatica, a large tree of deep swamps and rivers of the southern US
the light strong wood of any of these trees
Origin of tupelo
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