gumtree

British  

/ ˈɡʌmˌtriː /

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: gum.  any of various trees that yield gum, such as the eucalyptus, sweet gum, and sour gum

2. Also called: gumwood.  the wood of the eucalyptus tree

3. informal in a very awkward position; in difficulties

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Example Sentences

He found Jacky where he had left him at the foot of a gumtree tall and smooth as an admiral's main-mast.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles

We left a land covered with the monotonous interminable forest of the eucalyptus or gumtree, which, from the peculiar structure of its leaf, affords but little shelter from the tropical sun.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort

Marked a white gumtree F 40 close to camp in bed of river.

From Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, by Forrest, John

We travelled for a long mile over a level flat of good soil, though now quite destitute of vegetation, save some beautiful specimens of the truly evergreen gumtree.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea by Stokes, John Lort

The station homestead, so lovingly descanted upon in the advertisement, consisted of a two-roomed slab hut; the woolshed, where the sheep were shorn, was made of gumtree trunks roofed with bark.

From Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)