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white gum
noun
- any of various Australian eucalyptuses having a whitish bark.
white gum
noun
- any of various Australian eucalyptus trees with whitish bark
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white gum1
An Americanism dating back to 1735–45
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Example Sentences
The grasses and ferns there grew to a prodigious height, and there were magnificent forests of white gum and eucalyptus.
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Dissolve five ounces of best white gum-arabic in twenty table-spoonfuls of water, and strain it.
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Through scrub, over rocks and gullies, and through weird white gum forest, and no sound but the laboured breathing of the bearers.
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The trees seemed to consist chiefly of white gum, peppermint, and banksias, and all looked rather ragged and untidy.
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But we crossed four good sized dry creeks, lined with drooping tea-trees and white-gum trees.
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