tupelo
English Thesaurus
1. a town in northeast Mississippi (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | town, |
| definition | : | an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | magnolia state, mississippi, ms, |
| definition | : | a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War (noun.location) |
2. any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | gum, gum tree, |
| definition | : | any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | nyssa aquatica, water gum, |
| definition | : | columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | black gum, nyssa sylvatica, pepperidge, sour gum, |
| definition | : | columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus nyssa, nyssa, |
| definition | : | tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds (noun.plant) |
| substance holonym | : | tupelo, |
| definition | : | pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum (noun.plant) |
3. pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | wood, |
| definition | : | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance) |
| substance meronym | : | tupelo, tupelo tree, |
| definition | : | any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America (noun.plant) |
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