water gum

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

   SynonymsNyssa aquatica

   Broadertupelo

Questions about water gum

What does water gum mean?

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

What is another word for water gum?

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

water 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.