dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/tup_MW.json

{
  "tupelo gum":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a swamp tree ( Nyssa aquatica ) occurring especially in the southeastern U.S. and having brilliant glossy foliage and softer wood than the related black gums":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172838"
  },
  "Tupelo":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the pale soft wood of a tupelo":[],
      "city in northeastern Mississippi population 34,546":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8t\u00fc-p\u0259-\u02ccl\u014d",
      "\u02c8ty\u00fc-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For soils with above-average moisture: river birch, black tupelo , American hornbeam, sweetbay magnolia, serviceberry and smooth alder should grow well. \u2014 Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Sherwood recommended placing a rain garden at least 10 feet away from the house, and likes to include native red maple and tupelo trees if there\u2019s room. \u2014 Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "The tupelo is most striking in the autumn, when its leaves turn bright scarlet. \u2014 Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com , 14 Sep. 2021",
      "These monoliths face three longleaf pine trees and are surrounded by a grove of tupelo trees. \u2014 Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor , 22 Apr. 2021",
      "Try coasting among the tupelo trees, with trunks that stretch wide into the water, through Cedar Creek. \u2014 Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living , 8 Mar. 2021",
      "The Apalachicola River of North Florida in healthier times plunged deeply into tupelo forests, where the flooding waters brewed into an organic energy drink for a web of life that included a bay acclaimed for oysters. \u2014 Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com , 9 Dec. 2020",
      "Other trees to rival maples with riotous hues of red, orange and yellow simultaneously are the tupelo and Persian ironwood. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 Nov. 2020",
      "During the 1800s, the eastern edges of St. Bernard and Orleans parishes were covered with a forest of baldcypress and tupelo that lived in low-salinity swamps. \u2014 Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com , 3 Oct. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps from Creek *topil\u00f3 , from et\u00f3 tree + pil\u00f3:(fa), opil\u00f3:(fa) swamp":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1730, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191202"
  },
  "Tupaiidae":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a family of small arboreal mammals of southeastern Asia and the Pacific islands that comprise the tree shrews and are held to be insectivores or treated as primates of lowly organization and then placed with the lemurs and tarsiers in the suborder Prosimii":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "t(y)\u00fc\u02c8p\u012b\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Tupaia , type genus + -idae":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194655"
  },
  "Tupi":{
    "type":[
      "adjective or noun",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": tupinamba":[],
      ": a language family of lowland South America that includes Tupi-Guarani and the speech of a number of other peoples living mainly in Brazil south of the Amazon River":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "t\u00fc-\u02c8p\u0113",
      "\u02c8t\u00fc-(\u02cc)p\u0113-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202725"
  },
  "tupinamba":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a member of a group of American Indian peoples who lived along a broad stretch of the Brazilian coast from the vicinity of Guanabara Bay to the mouth of the Amazon River":[],
      ": the extinct language of the Tupinamba":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cct\u00fc-p\u0259-\u02c8nam-b\u0259",
      "-\u02ccnam-\u02c8b\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1810, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210209"
  },
  "Tupinamba":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a member of a group of American Indian peoples who lived along a broad stretch of the Brazilian coast from the vicinity of Guanabara Bay to the mouth of the Amazon River":[],
      ": the extinct language of the Tupinamba":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cct\u00fc-p\u0259-\u02c8nam-b\u0259",
      "-\u02ccnam-\u02c8b\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1810, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-004529"
  },
  "tupelo":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the pale soft wood of a tupelo":[],
      "city in northeastern Mississippi population 34,546":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8t\u00fc-p\u0259-\u02ccl\u014d",
      "\u02c8ty\u00fc-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For soils with above-average moisture: river birch, black tupelo , American hornbeam, sweetbay magnolia, serviceberry and smooth alder should grow well. \u2014 Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Sherwood recommended placing a rain garden at least 10 feet away from the house, and likes to include native red maple and tupelo trees if there\u2019s room. \u2014 Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "The tupelo is most striking in the autumn, when its leaves turn bright scarlet. \u2014 Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com , 14 Sep. 2021",
      "These monoliths face three longleaf pine trees and are surrounded by a grove of tupelo trees. \u2014 Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor , 22 Apr. 2021",
      "Try coasting among the tupelo trees, with trunks that stretch wide into the water, through Cedar Creek. \u2014 Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living , 8 Mar. 2021",
      "The Apalachicola River of North Florida in healthier times plunged deeply into tupelo forests, where the flooding waters brewed into an organic energy drink for a web of life that included a bay acclaimed for oysters. \u2014 Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com , 9 Dec. 2020",
      "Other trees to rival maples with riotous hues of red, orange and yellow simultaneously are the tupelo and Persian ironwood. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 Nov. 2020",
      "During the 1800s, the eastern edges of St. Bernard and Orleans parishes were covered with a forest of baldcypress and tupelo that lived in low-salinity swamps. \u2014 Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com , 3 Oct. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps from Creek *topil\u00f3 , from et\u00f3 tree + pil\u00f3:(fa), opil\u00f3:(fa) swamp":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1730, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040556"
  },
  "tupik":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Eskimo":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-042113"
  },
  "tuppence":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the sum of two pennies":[],
      ": a coin worth twopence":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8t\u0259-p\u0259n(t)s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-053825"
  },
  "tup":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": ram sense 1a":[],
      ": a heavy metal body (such as the weight of a pendulum)":[],
      ": to copulate with (a ewe)":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8t\u0259p"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In contrast, the surrounding hillside is dreamily serene: A modest herd of cattle browses in one field, clusters of tups (rams) and ewes with lambs in the others. \u2014 Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian , 20 Apr. 2018",
      "Faced with that reality, hill farmers tend to focus on producing prize breeding stock, the tups responsible for show-winning bloodlines. \u2014 Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian , 20 Apr. 2018",
      "Chariot, a San Francisco jitney service star tup , gives Ford a new business in urban markets. \u2014 Adam Lashinsky, Fortune , 13 Sep. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English tupe":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1604, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-134458"
  },
  "tupaiid":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to the Tupaiidae":[],
      ": a member of the Tupaiidae : tree shrew":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u012b\u0259\u0307d",
      "\""
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin Tupaiidae":"Adjective"
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-140542"
  }
}