blue gum
Origin of blue gum
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How to use blue gum in a sentence
We were on blue gum Ridge hunting squirrels, and we got to talking over one thing and another.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydThere was a blue-gum flat to the eastward of it, which we crossed, and then entered a brush of acacia pendula and box.
The flats on either side became slightly timbered, and blue gum was the prevailing tree.
The polygonum still prevailed upon them in places, and the blue-gum tree alone occupied their outskirts.
When we bought the Santa Anita, there were five eucalyptus or blue gum trees growing near the house.
Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 | Harris Newmark
British Dictionary definitions for blue gum
a tall fast-growing widely cultivated Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus globulus, having aromatic leaves containing a medicinal oil, bark that peels off in shreds, and hard timber. The juvenile leaves are bluish in colour
any of several other eucalyptus trees
- See also red gum (def. 1)
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