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yellow gum

noun

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


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

There is one form which splits easily which is designated as "yellow gum."

Yellow gum (Botany Bay gum) and brickdust, equal parts, melted together.

In the marshy regions men on horse-back, called amber riders, follow the outgoing tide and search for the yellow gum.

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

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