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US
/ˈtjupəˌɫoʊ, ˈtupəˌɫoʊ/
]
[ UK /tjuːpˈiːləʊ/ ]
[ UK /tjuːpˈiːləʊ/ ]
NOUN
- pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum
- any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America
How To Use tupelo In A Sentence
- The eerie squeal of a wood duck came from somewhere behind the gray tangle of naked oaks, willows cypress, elm, tupelo and cottonwood.
- Thin, faint yellow collars on trunks of cypress and tupelo rimming the old slough recorded the regression of recent flooding in the swamp.
- As an adult, many years later, working with a Southern singer songwriter, I happened to be in Tupelo Mississippi one dark night and came unexpectedly across the spotlit cabin where Elvis Presley was born. Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Photography: The Long and Winding Road
- Frame-by-frame analyses show a bird perched on a tupelo trunk, with a distinctive white pattern on its back.
- The champion tupelos have immense, gnarled bulbous bases - each with hollow sections.
- In the way of fruit-bearing shade trees he recommends sugar maple, flowering dogwood, white and cockspur thorn, native red mulberry, tupelo, black cherry, choke cherry, and mountain ash. The Bird Study Book
- Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Katrina plus five
- On the wooded uplands, loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) and upland oaks are dominant whilst on bottomlands, water tupelo, swamp blackgum, sweetgum, and oaks are common. Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
- Climb a cliff in the midst of the stunning Shawnee National Forest. Canoe the quiet beauty of an ancient cypress- tupelo swamp.
- Acorns were falling, tupelo berries were ripe in the river bottoms, squirrels were feeding heavily, leaves were on the trees and the obligatory frost was close enough that warbles were not a problem. What Happened to Squirrel Hunting?