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TUPELO FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees
Synonyms:
family Nyssaceae; Nyssaceae; sour-gum family; tupelo family
Classified under:
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)
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