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.

Exact synonyms: Oxydendrum Arboreum, Sorrel Tree, Titi
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

1. The sorrel tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sourwood

sourkrouts
sourly
sourness
sournesses
sourock
sourocks
sourpuss
sourpusses
sours
sourse
sourses
soursop
soursop tree
soursops
sourt
sourwood (current term)
sourwoods
sous
sous-chef
sous-chefs
sous-vide
sousaphone
sousaphones
sousaphonist
sousaphonists
soused
souses
sousing
sousings

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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