white gum

noun

white gum

An Americanism dating back to 1735–45

The grasses and ferns there grew to a prodigious height, and there were magnificent forests of white gum and eucalyptus.

Dissolve five ounces of best white gum-arabic in twenty table-spoonfuls of water, and strain it.

Through scrub, over rocks and gullies, and through weird white gum forest, and no sound but the laboured breathing of the bearers.

The trees seemed to consist chiefly of white gum, peppermint, and banksias, and all looked rather ragged and untidy.

But we crossed four good sized dry creeks, lined with drooping tea-trees and white-gum trees.

April 23, 2024inveterate

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