The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tupelo \Tu"pe*lo\, n. [Tupelo, or tupebo, the native American Indian name.] (Bot.) A North American tree ( Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also black gum, sour gum, and pepperidge.
Largo tupelo, or Tupelo gum (Bot.), an American tree ( Nyssa uniflora) with softer wood than the tupelo.
Sour tupelo (Bot.), the Ogeechee lime.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (&lit black gum English) 2 A tree native to eastern North America, ''Nyssa sylvatica''. n. 1 (&lit black gum English) 2 A tree native to eastern North America, ''Nyssa sylvatica''.
WordNet
n. columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall [syn: sour gum, pepperidge, Nyssa sylvatica]
small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt yielding a red eucalyptus kino [syn: black mallee, black sally, Eucalytus stellulata]
Wikipedia
Black gum may refer to several species of plants:
- Nyssa sylvatica, a tree native to eastern North America
- Eucalyptus aggregata, a tree that grows in south eastern Australia
Usage examples of "black gum".
Tobacco gum covered her hands and forearms, and it had worked in between the straps of her sandals so that there was black gum on the soles of her feet.
Choked in between where they could get the light were the wild tupelo gum and the black gum, making an impassable barrier, and then to the right of where I'd come ashore a mass of water oak and ironwood and the wisteria which I've already described.
Everything was gone now except those black gum hubs for the wheels.
He paused to suck in more vapor from the pellet of black gum he was heating in a closed pot.
It was pretty country, too: pine woods more than halfway to Hot Springs, after which black gum and sweet gum began to predominate in the bottomlands by the creeks.
Then with a hard black gum mixed with metal filings, he packed the screw holes and sanded them over.