white gum
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of white gum
An Americanism dating back to 1735–45
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His upper lip curled back to reveal the white gum shield protecting a mouth sneering with contempt, Muhammad Ali stands over the prone body of Sonny Liston.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2015
We'll get round beyond that white gum and plant the swags.
From Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush by Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton) Spence
We passed over some very fine flats of Bastard-box, silver-leaved Ironbark, and white gum, with a few scattered Acacia-trees, remarkable for their drooping foliage, and mentioned under the date 22nd December.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
Marked a white gum on right bank of river F 25, being the 25th camp from Champion Bay. 8th.
From Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, by John Forrest
At thirteen and a half miles a white gum flat with not many stones and trees not large.
From McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by John McKinlay
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