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Definitions: Black Gum |
Black GumNoun1. 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. Small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt yielding a red eucalyptus kino. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Black GumSynonyms: black mallee (n), black sally (n), pepperidge (n), sour gum (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The leaf of black gum is variable in size and shape. It can be oval, elliptical or obovate. It is lustrous, with entire, often wavy margins. The leaf turns scarlet in autumn. The flower is very small, greenish-white in clusters at the top of a long stalk. The fruit is a black-blue, ovoid stone fruit, about 3/8 of an inch long with a thin, oily, sour flesh. There are from one to three such fruit together on a long slender stalk. The bark is dark grey and flaky when young, but it becomes furrowed with age. The twigs of this tree are are reddish-brown, usually hidden by a greyish skin. The pith is chambered with greenish partitions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Black gum."
Crosswords: Black Gum |
| English words defined with "black gum": gum tree. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "black gum": Chinese ink ♦ FICUS CITRIFOLIA ♦ Indian ink. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Homemade wagon with wheels of black gum on the Will Turgin farm in northwest Georgia, near Clarksville.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
black gum | 21 |
black gum tree | 21 |
black gum spot | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "black gum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | sort tupelo (black tupelo, pepperidge, sour gum, tupelo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tupelo (black tupelo, pepperidge, sour gum, tupelo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tupelo (black tupelo, pepperidge, sour gum, tupelo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | tupelo noir (black tupelo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Black tupelo (black tupelo, pepperidge, sour gum, tupelo), Black Gum (black tupelo, pepperidge, sour gum, tupelo), Tupelo (black tupelo, pepperidge, sour gum, tupelo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tupelo negro (black tupelo, pepperidge, sour gum, tupelo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ackblay umgay black tupelo (black tupelo, pepperidge, sour gum, tupelo). (various references) nyssa (black tupelo, pepperidge, sour gum, tupelo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Nyssa sylvatica. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blackgum. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-g-k-l-m-u" | |
-3 letters: album, algum, almug, amuck, baulk, black, caulk. | |
-4 letters: alum, back, balk, balm, blam, buck, bulk, calk, calm, caul, clag, clam, club, culm, gamb, gaum, glum, guck, kagu, lack, lamb, luck, mack, maul, muck. | |
-5 letters: alb, amu, auk, bag, bal, bam, bug, bum, cab, cam, cub, cum, gab, gal, gam, gul, gum, kab, lab. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-g-k-l-m-u" | |
+1 letter: blackgums. | |
+5 letters: blackguardism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 63 6B 47 75 6D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01000111 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a c k   G u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0063 006B 0047 0075 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36786769772418779 |
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