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- noun Plural form of
sourwood .
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Examples
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Situated on a rise far back from the street, it was nestled on a lot thick with rhododendrons, laurels, sourwoods, and pines.
The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994
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Situated on a rise far back from the street, it was nestled on a lot thick with rhododendrons, laurels, sourwoods, and pines.
The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994
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Situated on a rise far back from the street, it was nestled on a lot thick with rhododendrons, laurels, sourwoods, and pines.
The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994
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The sward which ran down to its clear mirror was yet green, but the maples and sourwoods above it were coloured splendidly.
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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Grand oaks predominated and other trees such as hickories, poplars, pines, red maples, persimmons, black gums, dogwoods, and sourwoods were interspersed.
The University of North Carolina Campus: Natural Environment and Landscaping (1792-1877) William R. Burk 1877
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Coal companies usually plant grasses on mined land -- not the native sourwoods, tulip poplars, goldenrods, asters and other blooming trees and plants that bees need.
The Charleston Gazette - The Associated Press 2010
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Coal companies usually plant grasses on mined land -- not the native sourwoods, tulip poplars, goldenrods, asters and other blooming trees and plants that bees need.
The Charleston Gazette - The Associated Press 2010
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