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grey gum

British

noun

any of various eucalyptus trees of New South Wales having dull grey bark, esp Eucalyptus punctata

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Blue gum, red gum, grey gum, stringy-bark, iron-bark, and black-butt; the trees which surrounded Jess for fifty miles on every side were practically all of the eucalyptus family.

From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh

Now and again a few wandering emus would cross the grey gum plains around us, and then, as they caught sight of our figures, shamble quickly off again.

From "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 by Becke, Louis

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