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Definition of Gum tree
1. Noun. Any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum.
Specialized synonyms: Liquidambar, Eucalypt, Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree, Tupelo, Tupelo Tree
Terms within: Gum, Gumwood
Generic synonyms: Tree
Definition of Gum tree
1. Noun. A eucalyptus tree. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gum Tree
Literary usage of Gum tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Now and then you come upon a gum tree whose twigs are all smooth. Farther down,
the branches have warty bark, broken into rough, horny plates. ..."
2. The Youth's Companion, Or, An Historical Dictionary: Consisting of Articles by Ezra Sampson (1813)
"gum tree, the tree that produces the substance called Gum Arabic, ... The gum
tree of Arabia is a little, short, stunted plant, and the drops of gum. which ..."
3. The Youth's Companion, Or, An Historical Dictionary: Consisting of Articles by Ezra Sampson (1816)
"gum tree, the tree that produces the substance called Gum ... The gum tree of
Arabia is a little, short, stunted plant, and the drops of gum which it yields ..."
4. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1880)
"—The Iron-Bark—Gum and Oil—Mr. Froude on the Gum-Tree—The ... The gum-tree does
shed its leaf, though it is not deciduous. It does not really shed its bark, ..."
5. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"Gum-tree manna. — Other mannas.—Oak, larch, and cedar mannas.— Persian manna.—The
alhagi and tamarisk mannas.—The manna of the Scriptures ; trees supposed ..."
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