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Tupelo

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Noun

1. tupelo

pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum

2. tupelo, tupelo tree

any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America

3. tupelo

a town in northeast Mississippi

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tupelo

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noun plural -los
1. 
any of several cornaceous trees of the genus Nyssa, esp N. aquatica, a large tree of deep swamps and rivers of the southern US
2. 
the light strong wood of any of these trees

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Tupelo

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nounWord forms: plural ˈtupeˌlos
1. 
any of a genus (Nyssa) of the sour-gum family of tall North American trees found in moist forests or swamps, including the black gum and cotton gum
2. 
the fine-textured wood of such a tree, used for mallets, furniture, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tupelo

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n. pl. tu·pe·los
1. Any of several trees of the genus Nyssa of Asia and the eastern United States, having simple alternate leaves and small flowers.
2. The light wood of any of these trees.
A city of northeast Mississippi north-northwest of Jackson. It was the site of a Civil War battle (July 14, 1864) in which Union forces defeated the Confederate troops led by Gen. Nathan B. Forrest.

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