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    SOUR-GUM FAMILY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum treesplay

    Synonyms:

    family Nyssaceae; Nyssaceae; sour-gum family; tupelo family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("sour-gum family" is a kind of...):

    dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "sour-gum family"):

    genus Nyssa; Nyssa (tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds)

    Holonyms ("sour-gum family" is a member of...):

    Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)

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