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单词 mountain gum
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mountain gum
a. Short for gum tree n. Also preceded by various defining epithets, as mountain gum; black gum, blue gum, white gum, spotted gum, etc. (see at first word).
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1802 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales II. xix. 235 The blue gum, she-oak, and cherry tree of Port Jackson were commonly here.
1820 J. Oxley Jrnls. Two Exped. New S. Wales 102 A few diminutive gums being the only timber to be seen.
1833 C. Sturt Two Exped. Southern Austral. I. iii. 118 The cypresses became mixed with casuarina, box, and mountain-gum.
1833 C. Sturt Two Exped. Southern Austral. I. II. viii. 236 Eucalypti were the general timber on the ranges; one species..resembling strongly the black-butted gum, was remarkable for a scent peculiar to its bark.
1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. iv. 132 York gum... Abundant in York—on good soil.
1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. xii. 387 The trees, which grew only in the valleys, were small kinds of banksia, wattles, and drooping gums.
1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 6 The prevailing timber trees are Bastard box,..and the Flooded Gum.
1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. i. 11 Ironbark ridges here and there with spotted gum..diversified the sameness.
1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 283 On the small flats, the apple-gum grew.
1848 T. L. Mitchell Trop. Austral. 107 A small group of trees of the yellow gum, a species of eucalyptus growing only on the poor sandy soil near Botany Bay.
1852 L. A. Meredith My Home in Tasmania I. xi. 169 A kind of Eucalyptus, with long drooping leaves, called the ‘Weeping Gum’, is the most elegant of the family.
1864 J. S. Moore Spring Life Lyrics 114 Amid grand old gums, dark cedars and pines.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 281 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Some of the plants from which bees gather honey..black-gum (Nyssa multiflora).
1887 Colonial & Indian Exhib., London 1886: Rep. Colonial Sections 420 Other noble trees, as the Blue, White, Red, Swamp, Water-rooted and Manna-drooping Gums.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 27 Eucalyptus Gunnii,..In Tasmania this is known as ‘Cider Gum’, and in South-Eastern Australia occasionally as the ‘Sugar Gum’.
1893 Australasian 5 Aug. 252/4 The bark of the salmon gum approaches in colour to a rich golden brown.
1893 Sydney Morning Herald 19 Aug. 7/1 Here are no straight and lofty trees, but sprawling cinnamon gums.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 34 A gaseous haziness, making the leafage of the gums look bluer than even they were.
1930 R. V. Billis & A. S. Kenyon Pastures New viii. 123 The trees were very pretty, being a kind of weeping gum.
1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair vii. 44 Horn Island, with its stunted gums and cabbage-tree palms.
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mountain gum
mountain gum n. see gum n.2 5a.
extracted from mountainn.adj.
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