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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white gum1709

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Pennsylvania mountain laurel1785

pepperbush1785

southern pine1796

titi1827

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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).

单词	white gum
释义	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. 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). < n.²1709
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white gumn.2

Compounds

white gumn.²