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piperidge

piperidge is the alternative form of pepperidge.

Meaning of pepperidge

Noun

pepperidge (usually uncountable, plural pepperidges)

  1. (usually) Nyssa sylvatica, a medium-sized deciduous tree of North America.
    • In America we want things different; hedge-rows full of bright-berried bushes and varied autumn colors; meadows full of pepperidges, liquidambars, and thorns[…].1910, Samuel Parsons, Landscape Gardening Studies, page 63
    Synonyms:
    black gum, blackgum, black tupelo, sour gum

Forms of piperidge

pluralpiperidges

Questions about piperidge

What is piperidge the alternative form of?
Piperidge is the alternative form of pepperidge.

Words near piperidge in the dictionary

  1. piperaziniums
  2. piperazinone
  3. piperazinones
  4. piperazinyl
  5. piperic acid
  6. piperidge
  7. piperidges
  8. piperidide
  9. piperidides
  10. piperidine
  11. piperidineamine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piperidge (page history and authors); pepperidge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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