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Noun: tupelo family
  1. A family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees
    - Nyssaceae, family Nyssaceae, sour-gum family

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: Myrtales, order Myrtales, order Thymelaeales, Thymelaeales