Meaning | Any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America. |
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Synonym | tupelo |
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Member of | Nyssa, genus Nyssa | tupelos |
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Narrower | sour gum, black gum, pepperidge, Nyssa sylvatica | columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall |
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water gum, Nyssa aquatica | columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood |
Broader | gum tree, gum | Any of various trees of the genera ... / genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum |
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Substances | tupelo | pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum |
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Spanish | nyssa |
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