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名詞

pepperidge (usually uncountable, 複数形 pepperidges)

1. Nyssa sylvatica, a medium-sized deciduous tree of North America.
   • 1910, Samuel Parsons, Landscape Gardening Studies, page 63,

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

   • 2007 April 23, Paul Vitello, “Views Clash Among Neighbors as Builders Destroy Old for New”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “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.