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Webster 1913 Edition
Pepperidge
Pep′per-idge
,Noun.
[Cf. NL.
berberis
, E. barberry
.] (Bot.)
A North American tree (
Nyssa multiflora
) with very tough wood, handsome oval polished leaves, and very acid berries, – the sour gum, or common tupelo. See Tupelo
. [Written also
piperidge
and pipperidge
.] Pepperidge bush
(Bot.)
, the barberry.
Definition 2024
pepperidge
pepperidge
English
Nyssa sylvatica
Noun
pepperidge (usually uncountable, plural pepperidges)
- Nyssa sylvatica, a medium-sized deciduous tree of North America.
- 1910, Samuel Parsons, Landscape Gardening Studies, page 63,
- In America we want things different; hedge-rows full of bright-berried bushes and varied autumn colors; meadows full of pepperidges, liquidambars, and thorns […] .
- 2007 April 23, Paul Vitello, “Views Clash Among Neighbors as Builders Destroy Old for New”, in New York Times:
- “There used to be a charming little house here on a heavily wooded lot, with pepperidge and cedar and some beech trees,” said Kevin Kobs, a longtime resident of the neighborhood who stopped to watch the last stages of the clearing and grading of a lot bought by a home builder last year.
- 2008, Cathy Jean Maloney, Chicago Gardens: The Early History, page 161,
- Simonds listed the plants brought in for this new area, mostly natives: elms, oaks, maples, ashes, lindens, cherries, hackberries, pepperidges, and hawthorns.
- 1910, Samuel Parsons, Landscape Gardening Studies, page 63,
Synonyms
- (Nyssa sylvatica): black gum, blackgum; black tupelo; sour gum