nyssa aquatica

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   columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood

   Synonymswater gum

   Broadertupelo

Questions about nyssa aquatica

What does nyssa aquatica mean?

nyssa aquatica means "columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood".

What is another word for nyssa aquatica?

Close synonyms include water gum. 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 nyssa aquatica a common word?

nyssa aquatica is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.