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Blue gum   /blu gəm/   Listen
Blue gum

noun
1.
Tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish.  Synonyms: Eucalyptus globulus, fever tree.





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... between the lagoons and the river are thickly wooded (the trees consisting principally of the blue gum of a large growth), and are overgrown with vines of various descriptions, and the fern, the peppermint, flax plant, and currajong. The fern, currajong, and the flax flourish here in abundance, and the peppermint plant (which they had not seen in any other part of the ...
— A Source Book Of Australian History • Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne


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