tupelo tree

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tupelo tree - any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North Americatupelogum tree, gum - any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gumgenus Nyssa, Nyssa - tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside pondsNyssa aquatica, water gum - columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked woodblack 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 falltupelo - pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum