swamp gum
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[edit]Noun
[edit]swamp gum (plural swamp gums)
- Any of various species of Eucalyptus found in Australia.
- 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 51:
- Two years before, under the swamp-gum in their Mosman garden, away from the children's ears, they had talked of separating, but the discussion itself, conducted around mugs of coffee in those green and secure surroundings, had scared them out of it.