NYSSA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Nyssa mean? • NYSSA (noun)
The noun NYSSA has 1 sense:
1. tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds
Familiarity information: NYSSA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NYSSA (noun)
Meaning:
Tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Nyssa; Nyssa
Hypernyms ("Nyssa" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Nyssa"):
tupelo; tupelo tree (any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America)
Holonyms ("Nyssa" is a member of...):
family Nyssaceae; Nyssaceae; sour-gum family; tupelo family (a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees)
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