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
Between the two townships a park has been reserved, though not yet enclosed; the timber in it, which is large—consisting principally of white gum and stringy bark—is not allowed to be cut or injured.
From A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by Clacy, Ellen
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
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 grasses and ferns there grew to a prodigious height, and there were magnificent forests of white gum and eucalyptus.
From The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont by Rougemont, Louis de
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