loblolly
Americannoun
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South Midland and Southern U.S. a mire; mudhole.
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a thick gruel.
noun
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a southern US pine tree, Pinus taeda, with bright red-brown bark, green needle-like leaves, and reddish-brown cones
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nautical a thick gruel
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dialect a mire; mudhole
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of loblolly
1590–1600; compare dial. (Yorkshire) lob (of porridge) to bubble while boiling; second element, as in lobscouse, is obscure
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During this time, the team recorded corona discharges on the sweetgum tree and also observed similar activity on a nearby long needle loblolly pine as the storm weakened.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
The closures have walloped timber growers, especially in the South, where landowners ranging from Weyerhaeuser, with its vast loblolly plantations, to families with 40-acre woodlots raise pine for the forest-products industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
In went the debarked trees, out came a spray of loblolly pine.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
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.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2022
Henry studied an old loblolly pine that towered behind Pastor Tom.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Singleton’s job, as his title indicates, is to source enough loblollies to help keep I.P.’s production lines humming.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Mrs. Macy smiled at the loblollies and chinaberries curving around the perimeter of the Macys’ two acres.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2020
Barry Gibbs lives alone in a single-story home among the loblollies of Hyde County in eastern North Carolina.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2018
Across the road, where the farm itself lay, overgrown fields stretched back to meet a thick woods of pine trees, oaks and tall, topheavy loblollies.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Most of the land was being used for farms, interspersed with patches of loblollies and other trees.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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