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Definition of Tupelo
1. Noun. Pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum.
2. Noun. Any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America.
Generic synonyms: Gum, Gum Tree
Group relationships: Genus Nyssa, Nyssa
Specialized synonyms: Nyssa Aquatica, Water Gum, Black Gum, Nyssa Sylvatica, Pepperidge, Sour Gum
3. Noun. A town in northeast Mississippi.
Definition of Tupelo
1. n. A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also black gum, sour gum, and pepperidge.
Definition of Tupelo
1. Noun. A North American tree, (spelink Nyssa multiflora), of the dogwood family, with brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tupelo
1. a softwood tree [n -LOS]
Medical Definition of Tupelo
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tupelo
Literary usage of Tupelo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Two miles out on the tupelo road Colonel Bouton ambushed with two companies of
the Sixty-first, which held their fire until the head of the rebel column was ..."
2. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"Cotton Gum, tupelo Gum, tupelo, Swamp tupelo (NC, Large tupelo (local and SC,
... The tree is also known as Ogeechee Lime, Wild Limetree, Limetree, tupelo, ..."
3. Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865 by Minnesota, Charles Eugene Flandrau (1893)
"Prior to leaving tupelo I dispatched my aide-de-camp, Capt . Charles W. Anderson,
and Capt. John G. Mann, of the Engineer Department, to make all necessary ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"tupelo is durable when completely immersed in water, especially if salt, ...
Nyssa aquatica is the large tupelo, or "cotton" gum, so called because ..."
5. The North American Sylva, Or, A Description of the Forest Trees, of the by François André Michaux, Augustus Lucas Hillhouse (1819)
"In Georgia this tree is known by the name of Sour tupelo and Wild Lime, ...
The flowers are similar to those of the Large tupelo , but the sexes are borne ..."
6. Seasoning of Wood: A Treatise on the Natural and Artificial Processes by Joseph Bernard Wagner (1917)
"Owing to the prejudice against tupelo gum, it was until recently marketed under
such names as bay poplar, swamp poplar, nyssa, cotton gum, Circassian walnut ..."
7. Seasoning of Wood: A Treatise on the Natural and Artificial Processes by Joseph Bernard Wagner (1917)
"Owing to the prejudice against tupelo gum, it was until recently marketed under
such names as bay poplar, swamp poplar, nyssa, cotton gum, Circassian walnut ..."
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