black gum

1. 1.

   columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall

   Synonymssour gumpepperidgeNyssa sylvatica

   Broadertupelo
2. 2.

   a small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt; yields a red eucalyptus kino gum

   Synonymsblack malleeblack sallyEucalytus stellulata

   Broadermallee

Questions about black gum

What does black gum mean?

black gum means "columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black gum?

Close synonyms include sour gum, pepperidge, Nyssa sylvatica, black mallee, black sally. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black gum a common word?

black gum is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.