WordNet
tupelo tree
n. any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America [syn: tupelo]
Usage examples of "tupelo tree".
It was Shad that found him, when he was eighteen and looking for Holly, found him hanging by the neck from a tupelo tree.
Not a single flower or decorative plant offset the starkness of the setting, except for wisteria vines and bougainvillea bushes, which had gone wild, and a tupelo tree near the front porch and several oaks in the back near a small bayou about a hundred yards from the house.
It was hard for him to put two syllables together with his cock standing up like a tupelo tree and every nerve ending in his body standing to attention, but he did.
It is helpful to know that there is a tupelo tree between the mansion and the carriage house at Xanadu.