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WATER GUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water gum mean?
• WATER GUM (noun)
The noun WATER GUM has 1 sense:
1. columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood
Familiarity information: WATER GUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Nyssa aquatica; water gum
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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