sour gum

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

   Synonymsblack gumpepperidgeNyssa sylvatica

   Broadertupelo

Questions about sour gum

What does sour gum mean?

sour 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".

What is another word for sour gum?

Close synonyms include black gum, pepperidge, Nyssa sylvatica. 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 sour gum a common word?

sour 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.