NOUN
- any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
How To Use gum tree In A Sentence
- Silent Grove is the campground & again very pretty nestled amongst the boab and gum trees. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- Root competition from the huge tulip poplars, ashes, and sweet gum trees contributes significantly to the parched soil conditions.
- Laurel oaks, maples, pecans and sweetgum trees don't do as well.
- That was the year we lived on the banks of the Doo Wah Diddy Diddy and we danced the doodah day ballet in bubblegum trees with crested kookaburras until the dawn broke like crystal goblets smashed against the rocky cliffs of time. Unday Morning
- The Andes glimmer in the distance, beyond the gum trees. Times, Sunday Times
- She fell suddenly silent again, and sat gloomy and staring at the endless procession of gum trees as the train lumbered on through that fantastic forest, which made her think of all kinds of ridiculous things. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
- It was full of woollybutts, a beautiful flowering gum tree whose name I am unable to type correctly at first attempt, and boabs or bottle trees, which look like someone's attached a pump to a normal tree and left it to inflate for an hour.
- In the forest were black gum trees and thick stands of white cedar.
- Quick-growing wattles and eucalypts (gum trees) spread through the country for a multitude of uses on farms, mines, and railways and became a mark of habitation.
- The expanse of space south of Arcadia up the steep ridge will, over a period of some 20 years, be denuded of its black wattles and gum trees, and be replaced with indigenous acacias and proteas.