water gum

Other forms: water gums

Definitions of water gum
  1. noun
    columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood
    synonyms: Nyssa aquatica
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    type of:
    tupelo, tupelo tree
    any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America
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