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loblolly
[ lob-lol-ee ]
noun
- South Midland and Southern U.S. a mire; mudhole.
- a thick gruel.
loblolly
/ ˈlɒbˌlɒlɪ /
noun
- a southern US pine tree, Pinus taeda, with bright red-brown bark, green needle-like leaves, and reddish-brown cones
- nautical a thick gruel
- dialect.a mire; mudhole
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of loblolly1
Example Sentences
Timber production shifted to the uniform loblolly pine plantations of Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas.
At the edge of a thicket of loblolly pines, they stepped over a concrete slab decorated with a mural of a police car, overturned and aflame.
Probably a Pinus taeda, or loblolly pine, a slender conifer native to the Southeastern United States.
Vestiges of a past or harbingers of the future, the skeletons of once mighty oaks and elegant loblolly pines defy efforts to wholly preserve Tubman’s memory on these lands.
A loblolly pine in the Southeast and a ponderosa pine in the West grow at vastly different rates, complicating efforts to define maturity as a set number of years across multiple species.
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