black gum
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.93 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, gum.
Example Sentences
- "Sweet gums and black gums and sourwoods made the woods bright now when oaks and hickories had just begun to look dull and faded."
- "Old settlers learned from the bees and built their own beehives with two-foot sections sawn from the trunks of hollow black gums."
- "The sanctuary's other habitats include forests of black cherry, red cedar, black locust, beech, and oak, with red maples and black gums in wet areas."
- "2009, Tricia Telep, The Eternal Kiss, 2010, Large Print Edition, page 67, He grinned, displaying crooked teeth and black gums. Yikes."
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
black tupelo
pepperidge
sour gum
blue-leaf sally
large-flower swamp gum
Marrawah gum
swamp gum
white gum