Definition of Rose gum

1. Noun. Very tall tree of Queensland and New South Wales.

Exact synonyms: Eucalypt Grandis
Generic synonyms: Flooded Gum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rose Gum

rose chafer
rose chafers
rose chestnut
rose cold
rose curve
rose family
rose fish
rose garden
rose gardens
rose geranium
rose geraniums
rose globe lily
rose gold
rose golds
rose growers granuloma
rose gum (current term)
rose hip
rose hips
rose leek
rose mallow
rose moss
rose of Jericho
rose of Sharon
rose oil
rose oils
rose periwinkle
rose petal
rose petals
rose pink
rose quartz

Literary usage of Rose gum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Perfumery by Campbell Morfit (1853)
"Pastilles a la rose. Gum, in impalpable powder 6 oz. Olibanum " " 6 oz. Storax "• " 6 oz. Saltpetre " " 4 oz. Powder a la rose, impalpable powder 8 oz. ..."

2. A System of oral surgery: Being a Treatise on the Diseases and Surgery of by James Edmund Garretson (1884)
"Ordinary means failing the practitioner is driven to operative measures; these imply the employment either of a Cooper rose gum-tube, or Belloc's cánula. ..."

3. The Philatelist (1874)
"This stamp is not calculated to deceive; the absence of the rose gum, and the number of the lines (29 instead of 32) in central oval, afford a ready means ..."

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