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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 woodplay

  Familiarity information: WATER GUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WATER GUM (noun)


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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