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tupelo

[ US /ˈtjupəˌɫoʊ, ˈtupəˌɫoʊ/ ]
[ UK /tjuːpˈiːlə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum
  2. any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America

How To Use tupelo In A Sentence

  • It began as a vaguely naturalistic sprinkling of spring ephemerals among the ferns, blueberries, tupelos, oaks, and white pines spontaneously flourishing on abandoned farmland.
  • Before cultivation, this area was covered by bottom-land deciduous forest with an abundance of green and Carolina ash, elm, cottonwood, sugarberry, sweetgum, and water tupelo, as well as oak and bald cypress. Lower Mississippi Riverine Forest Province (Bailey)
  • The following day, after a pilgrimage to Elvis's childhood home (a two roomed shotgun shack in Tupelo) we headed for Fulton, a small town in Northern Mississippi.
  • Open marsh Sandweed grows extensively beneath bald cypress, pond cypress, swamp bay, swamp tupelo, and other trees.
  • River swamp forests, which are adapted to continuous flooding, contain baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) and water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica), which often codominate the canopy. Mississippi lowland forests
  • If rhododendrons thrive on your soil, plant the Pagoda Bush or the Chinese tupelo.
  • Home brewers have been known to buy $1,000 worth of Spanish saffron or hundreds of pounds of tupelo honey to flavor their concoctions. Extreme Brewing
  • I think an argument could be made that Ohio, an old line labor state, has lost jobs to Tupelo and Canton, MS (Toyota and Nissan), and Birmingham (Mercedes) because the American labor movement is totally outdates and has failed to adopt to a changing international market. "The battle for the Democratic Party is so bitter because it is a battle over culture."
  • And now this is all open water and dead cypress and tupelo trees. La. Looks To New Plan To Restore Fragile Coast
  • Their champs include a small 14-foot-tall winterberry tree and a big water tupelo with a trunk 39½ feet in circumference. Hunters have unusual aim: Big trees
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