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Gum tree   Listen
noun
gum tree  n.  Any tree that exudes a gum, such as:
(a)
The black gum (Nyssa multiflora), one of the largest trees of the Southern States, bearing a small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large trees become hollow.
(b)
A tree of the genus Eucalyptus; a eucalypt. See Eucalpytus.
(c)
The sweet gum tree of the United States (Liquidambar styraciflua), a large and beautiful tree with pointedly lobed leaves and woody burlike fruit. It exudes an aromatic terebinthine juice.
(d)
The sour gum tree.






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"Gum tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... pitched their camp beneath a gum tree upon the edge of the wood. It was October, and the gum was the colour of blood. Behind it rolled the autumn forest; before it stretched a level of broom-sedge, bright ochre in the light of the setting sun. The road ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

... far enough south of the tropics to have a much greater rainfall than most of Australia, but it is not far enough to have a cold climate. The generous rainfall covers the whole surface with green. There are forests of eucalyptus, or "gum tree," tree ferns, beech, and acacia—just about the same kinds that one ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson

... timber is a sort of gum tree, the bark of which along the trunk is that of the iron bark of Port Jackson; and its leaf, that of the blue gum tree; but its branches toward the head are of a yellow colour, smooth, and resembling the barked limbs of trees. The wood is longer grained, and more ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2 • David Collins

... dark soil, of great depth, bespoke uncommon fertility; while the varieties of the gum tree—then quite new to him—with their bark of every diversity of colour, gave a primeval ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman



Words linked to "Gum tree" :   tree, gumwood, eucalyptus tree, sweet gum tree, tupelo, eucalypt, liquidambar, tupelo tree, eucalyptus, gum



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