Definitions for water gum

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

wa′ter gum`(n.)

  1. any of several Australian trees of the myrtle family, growing near water.

    Category: Plants

Origin of water gum:

1840–50

Princeton's WordNet

  1. water gum, Nyssa aquatica(noun)

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


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