blue gum

noun

Origin of blue gum

First recorded in 1795–1805

Words nearby blue gum

blue goose, blue grama, blue grosbeak, blue ground, blue grouse, blue gum, blue heaven, blue heeler, blue heron, blue huckleberry, blue ice

Example sentences from the Web for blue gum

The timber on it was chiefly of the blue-gum kind, and the ground was covered with shells.

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete |Charles Sturt
The forest had become a tangled maze of low-growing shrub, dotted with giant growths of maple, spruce, and blue-gum.

In the Brooding Wild |Ridgwell Cullum
From the plain we entered a wood of blue-gum, in which reeds, grass, and brush formed a thick coppice.

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete |Charles Sturt
The great marsh bore south of us, and was clear and open, but behind us the blue-gum trees formed a thick wood above the weeds.

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete |Charles Sturt

There was a blue-gum flat to the eastward of it, which we crossed, and then entered a brush of acacia pendula and box.

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete |Charles Sturt

British Dictionary definitions for blue gum

blue gum

noun

a tall fast-growing widely cultivated Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus globulus, having aromatic leaves containing a medicinal oil, bark that peels off in shreds, and hard timber. The juvenile leaves are bluish in colour

any of several other eucalyptus trees

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blue gum

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British Dictionary definitions for blue gum

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BROWSE DICTIONARY

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blue gum

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Origin of blue gum

Words nearby blue gum

Example sentences from the Web for blue gum

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