TUPELO FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tupelo family mean? 

• TUPELO FAMILY (noun)
  The noun TUPELO FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees

  Familiarity information: TUPELO FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUPELO FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Nyssaceae; Nyssaceae; sour-gum family; tupelo family

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

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "tupelo family"):

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

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

Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)