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

They found at the mouth of the creek a very large and remarkable gumtree, and on the side next the river the letters H.H. appeared, although the cross-line of one H had grown out.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas

As it ran down the smooth branches of the gumtree and over the leaves it gradually congealed, and formed a white efflorescence.

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)

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

From Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, by Forrest, John

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