white gum

English

Noun

white gum (plural white gums)

  1. Any of numerous Eucalyptus species having smooth white bark. [from 18th c.]
    • 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 151:
      He nodded at a slope once covered in white gums, a folk memory returning.
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