Definition of Blackgum

1. a tupelo [n -S] - See also: tupelo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackgum

blackfish
blackfishes
blackflies
blackfly
blackfold
blackfoot daisy
blackfriar
blackfriars
blackguard
blackguarded
blackguarding
blackguardism
blackguardisms
blackguardly
blackguards
blackgum (current term)
blackgums
blackhander
blackhanders
blackhat
blackhats
blackhead
blackheads
blackheart
blackheart cherry
blackhearted
blackhearts
blackhole
blackholes
blackhouse

Literary usage of Blackgum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. John Gayther's Garden: And the Stories Told Therein by Frank Richard Stockton (1902)
"... XI blackgum AG'IN' THUNDER JOHN GAYTHER and the Daughter of the House walked in the garden. The melons were ripe now, and it was a pleasure to push ..."

2. Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by M. Boya Edwards (2001)
"blackgum by age 20 had such poor survival that it was not remeasured. Of the six surviving species, mean survival ranged from a low of 17 percent for ..."

3. Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts edited by C. John Ralph, John R. Sauer, Sam Droege (1998)
"Understories varied in their vegetation densities and plant composition, but usually included blackgum, flowering dogwood, elms (Ulmus), and blueberry ..."

4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Then comes the region of irregular overflow of shorter duration, grown with sweetgum, blackgum, water and willow oaks, ashes, cottonwood, hackberry and, ..."

5. An Assessment of Timber Product Output and Use, 1995, in Florida, Georgia by Tony G. Johnson, Anne Jenkins (1998)
"Other hardwoods 11% Sweetgum 14% blackgum- tupelo% Total 386 million cubic feet Figure 15—Roundwood output by hardwood species group, 1995. ..."

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