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  • noun Plural form of sourwood.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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