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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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

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

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

Their canoes are very simply constructed of a single sheet of bark of the gumtree brought together at the ends, and secured by stitching.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John