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say it: PEP-ur-ij
pepperidge is a noun meaning "columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall". It is pronounced /ˈpɛpɚˌɪdʒ/ — PEP-ur-ij. It carries one recorded sense.
columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pepperidge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.