Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tupelo

3 senses of tupelo

Sense 1
tupelo -- (pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum)
       => wood -- (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Sense 2
tupelo, tupelo tree -- (any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America)
       => gum tree, gum -- (any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum)

Sense 3
Tupelo -- (a town in northeast Mississippi)
       INSTANCE OF=> town -- (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; "they drive through town on their way to work")