river red gum

English

river red gum

Noun

river red gum (plural river red gums)

1. (Australia) A red gum tree of species Eucalyptus camaldulensis (syn. E. rostrata Schltdl., nom. illeg.).
   • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 128:

     Around lunchtime we crossed a creek with river-red-gums growing in its bed.

Translations

Eucalyptus camaldulensis

• Alyawarr: aper, apere,
• Anmatyerre: aper, per, apere
• Chinese: 赤桉
• Japanese: セキザイユーカリ (sekizai-yūkari), リバーレッドガム (ribā-reddogamu), ロストラタユーカリ (rosutorata-yūkari)
• Kaytetye: aylpele
• Warlmanpa: kunjumarra
• Warlpiri: ngapiri
• Warumungu: kunjumarra
• Yankunytjatjara: apara

References

• Nash (1997) “Comparative flora terminology of the central Northern Territory”, in Patrick McConvell & Nicholas Evans, editors, Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective‎^[1], Melbourne: Oxford University Press, page 192, 199 of 187–206
• Northern Territory Herbarium (2015). FloraNT: Northern Territory Flora Online. Department of Land Resource Management. Accessed: 19 September 2022.