English

Alternative forms

• gum-tree

Noun

gum tree ‎(plural gum trees)

1. A eucalyptus tree.
   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section xi

     She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.

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Derived terms

• gum-treed
• have seen one's last gum tree
• 'possum up a gum tree
• up a gum tree