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