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Definition of Flooded gum

1. Noun. Any of several Australian gum trees growing on moist or alluvial soil.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flooded Gum

Literary usage of Flooded gum

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

1. The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia by A. Despeissis, Western Australia Dept. of Agriculture (1903)
"York gum and flooded gum are liable to throw up suckers, it is said, ... flooded gum is very difficult to kill. Firing round the trunk in the month of March ..."

2. The Chemistry of Essential Oils and Artificial Perfumes by Ernest John Parry (1908)
"The author has traversed the whole of the regions in which this tree is found, however, and finds that it is usually known as the "flooded gum". ..."

3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"flooded Gum— 1847. L. Leichhardt, 'Overland Expedition,' p. 7: "Large flooded gum-trees (but no casuarinas) at the low banks of the lagoons. ..."

4. A Contribution to the Flora of Australia by William Woolls (1867)
"Several of the woods marked " Blue Gum" by Sir William Macarthur, belong to this species, and the " flooded gum" from the Clarence and other parts must be ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1859)
"... more than ia mile on either side, large flooded gum trees growing abundantly, with a fine sward of grass beneath, the soil being a rich brown clay loam. ..."

6. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port by Ludwig Leichhardt (1847)
"... the flooded- gum, and the Moreton Bay ash ; in the Myal scrub, ... amongst the box and flooded-gum, on the rising ground between the two creeks. ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1859)
"... more than ia mile on either side, large flooded gum trees growing abundantly, with a fine sward of grass beneath, the soil being a rich brown clay loam. ..."

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