单词 | gum tree |
释义 | gum treen. Any tree that exudes gum: spec. (a) any tree of the genus eucalyptus n.; (b) various species of the North American genus Nyssa; (c) the sweet gum tree of the United States, Liquidambar styraciflua. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [noun] > names applied to various trees gum tree1676 gum-wood1683 bloodwood1697 varnish-tree1758 kino1876 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees yellow box1662 gum tree1676 white gum tree1733 whip-stick1782 peppermint1790 red gum tree1790 red mahogany1798 white gum1798 box1801 blue gum1802 eucalyptus1809 box tree1819 black-butted gum1820 bloodwood1827 white ash1830 blackbutt1833 morrel1837 mountain ash1837 mallee scrub1845 apple gum1846 flooded gum1847 Moreton Bay ash1847 mallee1848 swamp gum1852 box-gum1855 manna gum1855 white top1856 river gum1860 grey box1861 woolly butt1862 marlock1863 fever tree1867 red ironbark1867 river white gum1867 karri1870 yellow jacket1876 eucalypt1877 yapunyah1878 coolibah1879 scribbly gum1883 forest mahogany1884 yellow jack1884 rose gum1885 Jimmy Low1887 nankeen gum1889 slaty gum1889 sugar-gum1889 apple box1890 Murray red gum1895 creek-gum1898 eucalyptian1901 forest red gum1904 river red gum1920 napunyah1921 whitewash gum1923 ghost gum1928 snow gum1928 Sydney blue gum1932 salmon gum1934 lapunyah1940 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > tupelo gum tree1676 black-gum1709 white gum1709 tupelo1731 Nyssa1754 sour gum1814 pipperidge1823 pepperidge1826 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [noun] > Australasian > eucalyptus gum-trees gum tree1676 red gum tree1790 eucalyptus1809 eucalypt1877 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 628 There is likewise black Walnut,..Dogwood,..Gum-tree,..with several others. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 338 The Gum Tree..yields a great quantity of resin,..which generally serves for the boiling house lamps. 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. iii. 18 Found in the body of the dwarf gum tree. 1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. iii. 108 The silvery stems of the never-failing gum-trees. 1870 F. S. Wilson Austral. Songs & Poems 140 The gum-trees ghastly shadows downward threw. Phrases P1. to be up a gum tree: to be in great difficulties; cf. tree n.; 'possum up a gum tree: the title of a song or dance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits to be hard bested?c1225 to be hard set1387 to be hard (straitly, stiffly, etc.) steada1400 to have mistera1400 charge1487 to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to ita1616 straiten1647 to be ill set1673 press1813 to be up a gum tree1829 push1863 1829 in Amer. Speech (1965) 40 131 Dere's possum up de gum tree. 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xxi Many's the time I have danced ‘Possum up a gum tree’ at a quiltin' frolic or huskin' party. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing vii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 325/2 ’Possum up a gum-tree, eh? 1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness iii. 86 S'long as they're in his trousers pocket you're up a gum-tree. 1927 Daily Express 15 July 1/4 Captain Lancaster cannot obtain any information, and, as he says, he is ‘up a gum tree’. 1959 Encounter Nov. 60/2 Until somebody solves the problem of an English idiom we're going to be up a gum-tree. Categories » P2. Australian. he has seen his last gum tree: = ‘it is all up with him’. Derivatives ˈgum-treed adj. grown with gum trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [adjective] > having gum-trees gum-treed1883 1883 P. Robinson Sinners & Saints 309 Modesta, a queer, wide-streeted, gum-treed place. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1676 |
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