单词 | gum tree |
释义 | gum tree (once / 22301 pages) n WORD FAMILY gum tree: gum trees USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s a gum tree. It grows in the swamp. It’s got to be in the swamp just like a cypress tree.” Washington Times(Sep 24, 2016) Mr Latter said the koala then crossed shallow floodwaters found his way up a gum tree to rest where it "looked quite happy". BBC(Sep 15, 2016) Hookina's flood plain is littered with gum trees torn up by raging waters. Reuters(Aug 17, 2016) n any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum Syn|Hypo|Hyper gum liquidambar any tree of the genus Liquidambar eucalypt, eucalyptus, eucalyptus treea tree of the genus Eucalyptus tupelo, tupelo treeany of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America American sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, bilsted, red gum, sweet gum, sweet gum treea North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap flooded gumany of several Australian gum trees growing on moist or alluvial soil malleeany of several low-growing Australian eucalypts stringybarkany of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark smoothbarkany of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk Eucalyptus amygdalina, peppermint, peppermint gum, red gumred gum tree of Tasmania Eucalyptus calophylla, marri, red gumvery large red gum tree Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Eucalyptus rostrata, river gum, river red gumsomewhat crooked red gum tree growing chiefly along rivers; has durable reddish lumber used in heavy construction Eucalyptus camphora, mountain swamp gummedium-sized swamp gum of New South Wales and Victoria Eucalyptus coriacea, Eucalyptus pauciflora, ghost gum, snow gum, white ashsmall to medium-sized tree of Australia and Tasmania having smooth white to light-grey bark shedding in patches or strips Eucalyptus delegatensis, alpine ash, mountain oaktall timber tree with hard heavy pinkish or light brown wood Eucalyptus fraxinoides, white mountain ashlarge tree with dark compact bark on lower trunk but smooth and white above; yields lumber similar to that of European or American ashes Eucalyptus globulus, blue gum, fever treetall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish Eucalypt ovata, swamp gummedium-sized tree of southern Australia Eucalyptus maculata, spotted gumlarge gum tree with mottled bark Eucalyptus citriodora, Eucalyptus maculata citriodora, lemon-scented gumsimilar to but smaller than the spotted gum and having lemon-scented leaves Eucalyptus regnans, mountain ashtree having wood similar to the alpine ash; tallest tree in Australia and tallest hardwood in the world Eucalyptus viminalis, manna gumtall tree yielding a false manna Nyssa aquatica, water gumcolumnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood Nyssa sylvatica, black gum, pepperidge, sour gumcolumnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms |
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