gum tree

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.

Hypernyms

• tree

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

A eucalyptus tree

Bulgarian: евкалипт m (evkalipt) Irish: crann guma m

Maori: purukamu

References

• gum tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia