单词 | white gum |
释义 | white gumn.2 1. U.S. A tupelo, spec. the water tupelo, Nyssa aquatica; (also) the pale wood of this tree. Cf. black-gum n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > other North American trees or shrubs black-gum1709 white gum1709 red fir1722 Quebec oak1768 Pennsylvania fir tree1770 Pennsylvania dwarf mountain maple1785 Pennsylvania mountain laurel1785 pepperbush1785 pepperbush1785 southern pine1796 titi1827 palo blanco1829 mock orange1860 palo fierro1860 mountain laurel1866 Joshua1867 red cedar1872 porkwood1884 guajillo1886 mountain balm1924 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 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 96 The white Gum, bearing a sort of long-bunch'd Flowers, is the most curled and knotted Wood I ever saw. 1860 E. Emmons N. Carolina Geol. Surv. II. (Swamplands) xi. 80 Upon the branches of the White Oak [River] the timber is large, consisting of poplar, cypress, black and white gum and red maple. 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. iii. 538 Cypresses line the brink of the water; beyond these..sweet and white gums. 1913 S. L. Wolfe Wood-Using Industries S. Carolina 14 The wood is difficult to season and its working qualities vary for different trees and situations. Its lack of color causes it to bear the name of white gum. 1940 Gleanings Bee Culture 68 147/2 White gum is the more plentiful along the Apalachicola River, making the lighter and better product. 2. Chiefly Australian. Any of various Australian gum trees having whitish bark or wood; (also) the wood of such a tree. Frequently with distinguishing word.See also river white gum n. at river n.1 Compounds 5b. ΘΚΠ 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 1798 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales I. 550 We passed a tree (of the kind named by us the white gum, the bark of which is soft) that we judged to be about one hundred and thirty feet in height. 1828 Hobart Town Courier 5 July 3 The brig Tranmere..sailed for London on Sunday, with..considerable shipments of the different sorts of timber indigenous in the island, as..stringy bark and white gum. 1885 Australasian (Melbourne) 28 Mar. 589/2 The leaf of the tree over which it was growing appears to be that of Eucalyptus coriacea—mountain white gum. 1920 Bull. (Sydney) 16 Dec. 20/1 In districts only a few miles apart the cider-gum..is identified as the swamp-gum, river-gum and white-gum. 1941 C. Barrett Australia 27 At the base of a very old white gum nodding greenhoods abound. 2012 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 18 Feb. h2 18 Everyone would recognise a white gum, that generic bush icon and symbol of Australia. Compounds white gum tree n. [Quot. 1733 shows a quotation of the work cited in quot. 1709 at sense 1 with slightly altered wording.] ΘΚΠ 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 1733 Pract. Husbandman & Planter I. 90 The White Gum Tree, bearing a Sort of Long-Bunch'd Flowers, is the most curl'd and knotted Wood I ever saw. 1793 J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. 525 The face of the country..was a poor soil, but finely formed, and covered with the stately white gum-tree. 1827 Trans. Linn. Soc. 15 278 The natives tell me it [sc. a parrot] chiefly breeds in a stump of a small White Gum-tree. 2011 L. Norrington Brigid Lucy & Princess Tower (Prologue) 2 I was tobogganing down the trunk of a white gum tree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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