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spotted gum

noun

  1. an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus maculata
  2. the wood of this tree, used for shipbuilding, sleepers, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Photograph: Davida MaChing/AP They fly out at dusk to feed on flowering spotted gum and bloodwood trees in forests, then wake locals with a cacophony of screeching on their return to town before dawn.

The soil in the valley of the Nive is sandy, thinly grassed, and openly timbered with ironbark spotted gum, etc.; the back country rising into low sandstone ridges, covered with dense scrub of brigalow acacia.

Sledges of powellized spotted gum were very strong and stood plenty of rough usage, but were heavier than those procured in Norway.

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