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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Nyssa sylvatica, a medium-sized deciduous tree of North America..
In America we want things different; hedge-rows full of bright-berried bushes and varied autumn colors; meadows full of pepperidges, liquidambars, and thorns[…].
“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.
Simonds listed the plants brought in for this new area, mostly natives: elms, oaks, maples, ashes, lindens, cherries, hackberries, pepperidges, and hawthorns.
Use pepperidge when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pepperidge means Nyssa sylvatica, a medium-sized deciduous tree of North America..
Common synonyms include black gum, blackgum, black tupelo, sour gum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In America we want things different; hedge-rows full of bright-berried bushes and varied autumn colors; meadows full of pepperidges, liquidambars, and thorns[…].
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