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Webster 1913 Edition

Ogeechee lime

O-gee′chee limeˊ

.

[So named from the

Ogeechee

River in Georgia.]

(Bot.)

(a)

The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (

Nyssa capitata

) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.

(b)

The tree which bears this fruit.