loblolly : Idioms & Phrases

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Loblolly bay

  • (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia (G. Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon).
Webster 1913

Loblolly boy

  • a surgeon's attendant on shipboard. Smollett.
Webster 1913

Loblolly pine

  • noun tall spreading three-needled pine of southeastern United States having reddish-brown fissured bark and a full bushy upper head
    Pinus taeda; frankincense pine.
WordNet
  • (Bot.), a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine (Pinus Tæda). Also, P. Bahamensis, of the West Indies.
Webster 1913

Loblolly tree

  • (Bot.), a name of several West Indian trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other respect; as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra.
Webster 1913