NYSSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nyssa mean? 

• NYSSA (noun)
  The noun NYSSA has 1 sense:

1. tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds

  Familiarity information: NYSSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NYSSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Nyssa; Nyssa

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)