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TUPELO TREE

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Meaning:

Any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America

Synonyms:

tupelo; tupelo tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tupelo tree" is a kind of...):

gum; gum tree (any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum)

Meronyms (substance of "tupelo tree"):

tupelo (pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tupelo tree"):

Nyssa aquatica; water gum (columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood)

black gum; Nyssa sylvatica; pepperidge; sour gum (columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall)

Holonyms ("tupelo tree" is a member of...):

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

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