Lexic.us

Definition of Black gum

1. Noun. Columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall.

2. Noun. A small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt; yields a red eucalyptus kino gum.

Definition of Black gum

1. Noun. A tree native to eastern North America, (spelink Nyssa sylvatica). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Gum

black flags black fly black fox black friar black friars black fritillary black game black garden ant black gold black grama

black greasewood black grouse black grouses black guillemot black guillemots black gum (current term) black gums black hairstreak black hairstreaks black hat

black hats black haw black heel black hellebore black hellebores black hemlock black henbane black hickory black hole black holes

Literary usage of Black gum

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

1. The North American Sylva, Or, A Description of the Forest Trees, of the by François André Michaux, Augustus L Hillhouse (1819)
"IN the park of Mr. W. Hamilton , at the Woodlands , near Philadelphia , I first observed the black gum. The river Schuylkill in this vicinity may be assumed ..."

2. Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts, in the State by Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts (1819)
"OBSERVATIONS On the Disease of the Gum Trees, called the black gum. By EC GENET, Esq. Read before the Society, March 1, 1819. * THE peach and the plum trees ..."

3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"The black gum, a species of Nyssa. of olive.—W. Darby, ' Louisiana,' p. 62. 1818 It is named by Darby, in his ' Emigrant's Guide,' p. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1896)
"... and the front corners or creases of the eyes had been filled with black gum and varnish, highly polished, so that, save for the four conventional sets ..."

5. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"Ifar,ki occur. q Area in which the black gum occurs hut not the TUPELO. and in ... The black gum sprouts readily from the stump. The rather thick shining ..."

6. Trees and Tree-planting by James Sanks Brisbin (1888)
"Its Resemblance to the black gum-tree, and Exception.— Description and Uses of its Wood.—Buoyant Property of its Roots. —The Esteemed Delicacy of its Fruit. ..."

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