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Gum tree

noun

Any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum. Synonym: gum.

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"Gum tree" Quotes from Famous Books

... Americans conceive their woods to be inexhaustible. My landlord this day cut down thirty-two young cedars to make a hog-pen. A settler informs me, he raised a gum tree from the seed, which, in sixteen years, measured twenty inches diameter, three feet from it's base. He tells, me they have ten species of oak; viz, white, black, red, spanish, turkey, chesnut, ground, water, barren, ...

— Travels in the United States of America • William Priest

... feet up in the air, like a boy, and rapped his heels together—"I'm fit for anything—from fishing to riding bull calves, or cutting out a wild bees' nest from a gum tree a mile high. Oh! we're going to have a high old time. I say, Mary, where's the ...

— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke

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