TUPELO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tupelo mean? 

• TUPELO (noun)
  The noun TUPELO has 3 senses:

1. pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum

2. any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America

3. a town in northeast Mississippi

  Familiarity information: TUPELO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUPELO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tupelo" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("tupelo" is a substance of...):

tupelo; tupelo tree (any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

tupelo; tupelo tree

Hypernyms ("tupelo" is a kind of...):

gum; gum tree (any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum)

Meronyms (substance of "tupelo"):

tupelo (pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tupelo"):

Nyssa aquatica; water gum (columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood)

black 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 fall)

Holonyms ("tupelo" is a member of...):

genus Nyssa; Nyssa (tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A town in northeast Mississippi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Tupelo" is a part of...):

Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)