mahogany gum

English

Noun

mahogany gum (plural mahogany gums)

1. (Australia) Any of several trees of the genus Eucalyptus with hard, dark timber; the wood of these trees. [from 19th c.]
   • 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 139:

     A grove of mahogany gums at Penders in New South Wales suggests a degree of deliberate horticultural shaping […] .