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单词 white gum
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white gumn.2

Brit. /ˈwʌɪtɡʌm/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌɡəm/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., gum n.2
Etymology: < white adj. + gum n.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.
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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.
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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.]
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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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