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Gum tree   /gəm tri/   Listen
noun
gum tree  n.  Any tree that exudes a gum, such as:
(a)
The black gum (Nyssa multiflora), one of the largest trees of the Southern States, bearing a small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large trees become hollow.
(b)
A tree of the genus Eucalyptus; a eucalypt. See Eucalpytus.
(c)
The sweet gum tree of the United States (Liquidambar styraciflua), a large and beautiful tree with pointedly lobed leaves and woody burlike fruit. It exudes an aromatic terebinthine juice.
(d)
The sour gum tree.






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"Gum tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... and kernels of the gum tree, terminalia, mangoes, alligator pears, the guava, the bread tree, and the narrow-leaved eugenia, were planted with profusion; and the greater number of those trees already afforded to their young cultivator both shade and fruit. His industrious hands had diffused ...
— Paul and Virginia • Bernardin de Saint Pierre

... in Maine and Canada and on the north shore of Lake Superior, and know, as every lover of the woods knows, how each wood has its character, its peculiar odors—even a language of its own. The burning pine has one speech, the gum tree another. One friend at least who was with me can ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

... pitched their camp beneath a gum tree upon the edge of the wood. It was October, and the gum was the colour of blood. Behind it rolled the autumn forest; before it stretched a level of broom-sedge, bright ochre in the light of the setting ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

... miles south of the river; on the edge of a very large lagoon, or lake. The country was so extremely low, that before I returned up the river to rejoin the horses, wishing to see what the openings on the other side were, I ascended a large gum tree, which enabled me to see that the flats opposite were similar to those on the south side. Our progress, upon the whole although we had travelled upwards of ten miles, did not exceed in a direct line five miles. The lagoons abound with water fowl, although we were not so fortunate as to obtain ...
— Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales • John Oxley



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