flooded gum

British  

noun

1. any of various eucalyptus trees of Australia, esp Eucalyptus saligna (the Sydney blue gum), that grow in damp soil

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Example Sentences

To the productions of the country as then reported, may now be added great quantities of rose wood, the flooded gum, and coal.

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Near the large water-hole at which I halted, was an old camping place of the natives, and the remnants of many a hut lay scattered round two large flooded gum trees.

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I say, Joan, you remember the old Eight Mile Water-hole on Dingo Flat—middle of the patch of flooded gum and she-oak—that the Blacks used to say had no bottom to it?

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The channel of the river became narrow and deep, with steep banks, as it enters the scrub, and there the flooded gums entirely disappeared.

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Of course, the trees were there—ti-tree, flooded gum, and so forth—but they looked brown and ragged.

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