yellow gum

American  

noun

1. any of several Australian eucalyptuses, as Eucalyptus melliodora, having yellowish bark.

2. any of several tupelos.

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Example Sentences

Upon a plant also which yielded a yellow gum, there was less than upon the same kind of plant in Botany Bay.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert

All values exist with the embossing double; several with the embossing double, one of the impressions being inverted; part double and treble perforations; and the white and the yellow gum.

From Gambia by Melville, Frederick John

Removal from Botany Bay--Arrival of two French ships--Account of them--Preparations for encampment--Difficulties--Scurvy breaks out--Account of the red and yellow gum trees.

From The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Phillip, Arthur

The juice is collected by incising the stems, or by breaking young twigs of the tree and securing the yellow gum resinous exudations in hollow bamboos, where it is allowed to harden.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

The yellow gum has been discovered to possess the same property, but in an inferior degree.

From The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Phillip, Arthur