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

We this day passed a small group of trees of the yellow gum, a species of eucalyptus growing only on the poor sandy soil near Botany Bay, and other parts of the sea-coast near Sydney.

From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas

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

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

The tree producing the yellow gum is of a very diminutive size; but, unlike that of Cape Barren island, it bears a reed correspondent to itself.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 by Collins, David

January 1788 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