black gum

Noun black gum has 2 senses

• black gum(n = noun.plant) nyssa sylvatica, pepperidge, sour gum - columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall; Array
is a kind of tupelo, tupelo tree

• black gum(n = noun.plant) black mallee, black sally, eucalytus stellulata - a small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt; yields a red eucalyptus kino gum; Array
is a kind of mallee