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NYSSA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds

Synonyms:

genus Nyssa; Nyssa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Nyssa" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Nyssa"):

tupelo; tupelo tree (any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America)

Holonyms ("Nyssa" is a member of...):

family Nyssaceae; Nyssaceae; sour-gum family; tupelo family (a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees)

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