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- noun Plural form of
scuppernong .
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Examples
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Sounds good… After reading this, I found some scuppernongs at Whole Foods, and “jellied them” with Riesling.
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He has also gotten stains and dyes from scuppernongs.
From Captivity to Fame or The Life of George Washington Carver Raleigh Howard Merritt 1929
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"Uncle," says he, "how will those scuppernongs be about now on the big arbor in front of Uncle Phil's?"
Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907
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This plate shows the noted scuppernongs on Roanoke Island, of which the origin is unknown, but which were of great size more than one hundred years ago.
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I would forage in the woods for wild plums, scuppernongs, hickory nuts, mushrooms, dock, ramp, purslane and other greens.
Chattanooga Pulse 2009
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It lists every food mentioned (52 of them) and explains references like scuppernongs and ambrosia salad.
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Hold me while summer cherries turn red upon the reddest vine and sun-ripe scuppernongs turn bronze upon
WordPress.com News 2009
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Cotton and corn for staple crops; peaches, figs, scuppernongs, vegetables, melons for incidental crops; God's good air in North Carolina; good roads, too ” why, man, Moore County has authorized the laying out of a strip of land along all highways to be planted in shrubbery and fruit trees and kept as a park, so that you will motor for 100 miles through odorous bloom in spring! ”
The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922
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This plate shows the noted scuppernongs on Roanoke Island, of which the origin is unknown, but which were of great size more than one hundred years ago.]
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"We are also offering blueberries, scuppernongs, thornless blackberries and pomegranates.
PNJ - News 2009
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