genus Nyssa

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genus Nyssa - tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside pondsNyssadicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationfamily Nyssaceae, Nyssaceae, sour-gum family, tupelo family - a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum treestupelo tree, tupelo - any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America