SOUR GUM


Meaning of SOUR GUM in English

a tree, Nyssa sylvatica, of eastern North America, having elliptic leaves, dark-blue, berrylike fruit, and wood with a variety of commercial uses. Also called black gum, beetlebung, pepperidge . Cf. tupelo .

[ 1775-85, Amer. ]

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