pepperidge

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall

That while he tendered to Alice the gourd of sweet water, and the venison in a trencher, neatly carved from the knot of the pepperidge, with sufficient courtesy, in performing the same offices to her sister, his dark eye lingered on her rich, speaking countenance. — The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757, James Fenimore Cooper

sour gum, black gum, Nyssa sylvatica

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