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Definition of Gumtree
1. a tree that yields gum [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gumtree
Literary usage of Gumtree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1895)
"... known as White gumtree, Drooping gumtree or Swamp-gumtree. New South Wales,
Victoria, Tasmania. A tree of handsome appearance, with a smooth white bark ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Of the gumtree there are more than 150 species, nearly all valuable for timber,
and for their essential oils, which possess important medicinal properties. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... the manna-gumtree of Australia, and the Tamarix Gallica, ... ria.
manna-gumtree (man'a-gum'tre), ». An Australian troc, Eucalyptus ..."
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