gum tree

See also: gum-tree and gumtree

English

Alternative forms

• gum-tree, gumtree

Noun

gum tree (plural gum trees)

1. A eucalyptus tree, including trees now placed in the genera Angophora and Corymbia.

   Hypernym: tree

2. Sapium glandulosum, found from northern Argentina to southern Mexico.

Derived terms

• gum-treed
• happy as a possum up a gum tree
• have seen one's last gum tree
• strike me up a gum tree
• up a gum tree

 

Translations

A eucalyptus tree

• Bulgarian: евкалипт m (evkalipt)
• Dutch: gomboom (nl) m, eucalyptus (nl) m
• Finnish: eukalyptus (fi)
• Irish: crann guma m
• Maori: purukamu
• Turkish: okaliptüs (tr)

Further reading

• gum tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia