loblolly
Americannoun
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loblollies
plural
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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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Besides last summer’s interrupted logging job, several hundred acres of fast-growing loblolly planted in 2017 and 2018 are coming due for thinning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Using this system in North Carolina, the team recorded 859 corona events on the sweetgum tree and 93 on the loblolly pine.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
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.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 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
“However, I will give you one bonus answer, which Charles, of course, will also hear. Your bonus answer is ‘lodgepole, loblolly, and Rocky Mountain white.’”
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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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