gum tree

See also: gumtree

English

Alternative forms
  • gum-tree

Noun

gum tree (plural gum trees)

  1. (botany) A eucalyptus tree.
    • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section xi
      She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.

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Derived terms
  • gum-treed
  • have seen one's last gum tree
  • 'possum up a gum tree
  • up a gum tree

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