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Definition of Gumtrees
1. gumtree [n] - See also: gumtree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gumtrees
Literary usage of Gumtrees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"A native would give forth a sharp exclamation while looking up into one of the
gumtrees. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, half a dozen natives would be up ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1879)
"The lamp-lights streamed weirdly upon the gumtrees, and doubtless to the unaccustomed
eye exaggerated the difficulties of the road. ..."
3. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1891)
"... Giant-Gumtree and as one of the Swamp- gumtrees. In sheltered springy forest-glens
attaining exceptionally to a height of over 400 feet, ..."
4. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1878)
"... is found sometimes swarming in hundreds after sunset around felled gumtrees,
or broken branches, in the bark of which their eggs are deposited, ..."
5. East Jersey Under the Proprietary Governments: A Narrative of Events by William Adee Whitehead (1875)
"There are not many of great Trees, but straight and tall, and there be of many
sorts, Oak, Walnut, Chesnut, Cedar, Popler, gumtrees, Firs, Pines, ..."
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