white gum
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of white gum
An Americanism dating back to 1735–45
Example Sentences
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His upper lip curled back to reveal the white gum shield protecting a mouth sneering with contempt, Muhammad Ali stands over the prone body of Sonny Liston.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2015
Lagoons wooded round generally with rusty gum, box, and white gum; wind east-south-east and pleasant.
From McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by McKinlay, John
About two in the morning the downpour ceased, the sky cleared, and a fair half-moon of silvery brightness shone out above the tops of the white gum forest.
From "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 by Becke, Louis
Conal's resting place was on a sunny hillside under a blossoming white gum in which the bees hummed drowsily in the spring time and through which the green parrots flashed all the year.
From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
The holes of the creek were shaded by large Terminalias, and by a white gum, with slightly drooping foliage of a pleasing green colour.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
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