sour-gum family

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1.sour-gum family - a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum treesfamily Nyssaceae, Nyssaceae, tupelo familydicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationMyrtales, order Myrtales, order Thymelaeales, Thymelaeales - Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceaegenus Nyssa, Nyssa - tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds