pepperidge

plural pepperidges

1. uncountableusuallyNyssa sylvatica, a medium-sized deciduous tree of North America.

   Simonds listed the plants brought in for this new area, mostly natives: elms, oaks, maples, ashes, lindens, cherries, hackberries, pepperidges, and hawthorns.

   2008, Cathy Jean Maloney, Chicago Gardens: The Early History, page 161

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   In America we want things different; hedge-rows full of bright-berried bushes and varied autumn colors; meadows full of pepperidges, liquidambars, and thorns[…].

   1910, Samuel Parsons, Landscape Gardening Studies, page 63

   “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.

   2007 April 23, Paul Vitello, “Views Clash Among Neighbors as Builders Destroy Old for New”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: black gum, blackgum, black tupelo, sour gum