tupelo

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Handled in the way in which its particular character demands, tupelo is a wood of much value.

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  1. noun Any of several trees of the genus Nyssa, especially N. aquatica, of the southeast United States, having soft light wood.
  2. noun The wood of this tree.

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  • I was twelve years old, and as I watched the Moon rise orange and bloated through the cypress and tupelo-gum, my mind drifted to the stories I'd heard at my nanny's knee, tales of ha'nts and spirits, of the cursed souls called loup-garous, and of the Alligator King, a hundred-foot behemoth that could rise unseen from his watery lair and reduce a pirogue to kindling with a single snap of his great jaws. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 04-05 - October-November 2003
  • The waterways are lined with green walls of willows, tupelo gum trees, and the knobby-kneed, moss-draped cypresses. —  CANOE Travel Features
  • He turned his garage into his workshop and uses a floor model band saw to cut pattern pieces out of bass, tupelo or jelutong wood. —  Carlsbad Current-Argus Most Viewed
  • The north end of the lake, near tupelo trees, have been the most productive spots.
  • Everything reminds you that you're in the Old South: Drawls as thick as the local tupelo honey, zydeco music, grits for breakfast, bayous ... —  CANOE Travel Features
 

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  1. Probably Creek 'topilwa : íto, tree + opílwa, swamp.

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  1. Amer, Indian
 

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/ˈtjupɛloʊ/
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