tupelo

Speech parts

1. tupelo - Noun

2. Tupelo - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cyprus cedar elm hazel linden magnolia cottonwood dogwood ash cork birch beech alder ebony juniper
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Hypernyms

wood gum gum tree

Hyponyms

pepperidge black gum sour gum Nyssa sylvatica Nyssa aquatica

Phrases with the word

tupelo family black tupelo tupelo tree

Anagrams

poulet

Examples

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories. Bobby Heenan

Kisses sweeter than Tupelo honey. Little bit crazy like New Orleans. Memphis blue and Daytona sunny. Soft as cotton in some cut-off jeans. Don't you know, ain't nothing in the whole wide world like a Southern girl. Tim McGraw

I had too much praise, too much flattery and fawning over and I needed to remember who I was, where I came from. One time I called a relative in Tupelo. It was Christmas and they were havin' dinner. I asked, 'What?' and she was kind of quiet, then said, 'Meat loaf. Elvis Presley

A conceptually knotty record, contains barely veiled references to a breakup, but most listeners at the time would have understood them as references to Uncle Tupelo rather than a romantic partner. Source: Internet

His mother recalled that from the age of two, at the Assembly of God church in Tupelo attended by the family, "he would slide down off my lap, run into the aisle and scramble up to the platform. Source: Internet

Thanks to local realtors and Bank Plus in Tupelo. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

TUPE tupek tupelize tupelo family tupelo tree tuperssuatsiaite