sour-gum family

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   a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees

   SynonymsNyssaceaefamily Nyssaceaetupelo family

   Broaderdicot family

   Part ofMyrtales

Questions about sour-gum family

What does sour-gum family mean?

sour-gum family means "a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees".

What is another word for sour-gum family?

Close synonyms include Nyssaceae, family Nyssaceae, tupelo family. 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 family a common word?

sour-gum family 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.