English noun: sour-gum family | |||
1. | sour-gum family (plant) a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees | ||
Synonyms | family Nyssaceae, Nyssaceae, tupelo family | ||
Broader (hypernym) | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | ||
Member holonym | genus Nyssa, Nyssa | ||
Member meronym | Myrtales, order Myrtales, order Thymelaeales, Thymelaeales | ||