Nyssa, genus Nyssa

tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds

• dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus — genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

• tupelo, tupelo tree — any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America

• Nyssaceae, family Nyssaceae, sour-gum family, tupelo family — a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees