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Definition of Sourwood
1. Noun. Deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves.
Group relationships: Genus Oxydendrum, Oxydendrum
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Definition of Sourwood
1. n. The sorrel tree.
Definition of Sourwood
1. Noun. A North American deciduous shrubby tree, of the genus ''Oxydendrum'', having deep fissures in its bark, and sour tasting leaves ¹
2. Noun. An Australian tree, of the genus ''Hibiscus''; the sorrel tree ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sourwood
1. a flowering tree [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sourwood
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sourwood
Literary usage of Sourwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Coal Resources of the Clintwood and Bucu Quadrangles, Virginia by Henry Hinds, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1916)
"sourwood Mountain anticline.—In the south-central part of the Bucu quadrangle
there is a structure that is the reverse of a syncline, strata being convex ..."
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