WATER GUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood

Synonyms:

Nyssa aquatica; water gum

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("water gum" is a kind of...):

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

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