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Sour Gum

Definition: Sour Gum

Sour Gum

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Sour Gum

Synonyms: black gum (n), pepperidge (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sour Gum

English words defined with "sour gum": family NyssaceaeNyssaceaesour-gum familytupelo family. (references)

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Modern Translation: Sour Gum

Language Translations for "sour gum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

sort tupelo (black gum, black tupelo, pepperidge, tupelo). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tupelo (black gum, black tupelo, pepperidge, tupelo). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tupelo (black gum, black tupelo, pepperidge, tupelo). (various references)

   

French

  

tupelo noir. (various references)

   

German

  

Tupelo (black gum, black tupelo, pepperidge, tupelo), Black tupelo (black gum, black tupelo, pepperidge, tupelo), Black Gum (black gum, black tupelo, pepperidge, tupelo). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fekete mézgásfa. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tupelo negro (black gum, black tupelo, pepperidge, tupelo). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oursay umgay

   

Portuguese

  

black tupelo (black gum, black tupelo, pepperidge, tupelo). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nyssa (black gum, black tupelo, pepperidge, tupelo). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sour Gum

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Nyssa sylvatica. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Sour Gum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: grumous.

Words within the letters "g-m-o-r-s-u-u"

-1 letter: rugous.

-2 letters: gurus.

-3 letters: grum, gums, guru, mogs, mors, mugs, ours, roms, rugs, rums, smog, smug, sour, sumo, urus.

-4 letters: gor, gos, gum, mog, mor, mos, mug, mus, oms, ors, our, rom, rug, rum, som, sou, sum.

-5 letters: go, mo, mu, om, or, os, so, um, us.

 Words containing the letters "g-m-o-r-s-u-u"
 

+3 letters: glamourous, glomerulus, umbrageous, uropygiums.

 

+4 letters: curmudgeons, microfungus, surmounting, unglamorous.

 

+5 letters: umbrageously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sour Gum


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 75 72      47 75 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01000111 01110101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#117 &#114 &#32 &#71 &#117 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0075 0072      0047 0075 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

538187842418779

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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