nyssa

English Thesaurus

1. tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	tupelo, tupelo tree,
definition	:	any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family nyssaceae, nyssaceae, sour-gum family, tupelo family,
definition	:	a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees (noun.plant)