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  • noun Plural form of scuppernong.

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Examples

  • Sounds good… After reading this, I found some scuppernongs at Whole Foods, and “jellied them” with Riesling.

    Plum Jam | Baking Bites 2006

  • He has also gotten stains and dyes from scuppernongs.

    From Captivity to Fame or The Life of George Washington Carver Raleigh Howard Merritt 1929

  • "Uncle," says he, "how will those scuppernongs be about now on the big arbor in front of Uncle Phil's?"

    Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907

  • This plate shows the noted scuppernongs on Roanoke Island, of which the origin is unknown, but which were of great size more than one hundred years ago.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • I would forage in the woods for wild plums, scuppernongs, hickory nuts, mushrooms, dock, ramp, purslane and other greens.

    Chattanooga Pulse 2009

  • It lists every food mentioned (52 of them) and explains references like scuppernongs and ambrosia salad.

    Catholic Online > Daily Readings 2009

  • Hold me while summer cherries turn red upon the reddest vine and sun-ripe scuppernongs turn bronze upon

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • Cotton and corn for staple crops; peaches, figs, scuppernongs, vegetables, melons for incidental crops; God's good air in North Carolina; good roads, too ” why, man, Moore County has authorized the laying out of a strip of land along all highways to be planted in shrubbery and fruit trees and kept as a park, so that you will motor for 100 miles through odorous bloom in spring! ”

    The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922

  • This plate shows the noted scuppernongs on Roanoke Island, of which the origin is unknown, but which were of great size more than one hundred years ago.]

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • "We are also offering blueberries, scuppernongs, thornless blackberries and pomegranates.

    PNJ - News 2009

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