eucalyptus

en-noun

eucalyptus (plural eucalypti or eucalyptuses)

eucalypti (plural)
eucalyptuses (plural)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wes-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁su-
Proto-Hellenic *ehu-
Ancient Greek ἐΰς (eǘs)
Ancient Greek εὖ (eû)
Ancient Greek εὐ- (eu-)
Ancient Greek καλύπτω (kalúptō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek καλυπτός (kaluptós)
taxonomic name Eucalyptuslbor.
French eucalyptusbor.
English eucalyptus
Borrowed from French eucalyptus.

etymon

Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.


jarrah

en-noun

jarrah (countable and uncountable, plural jarrahs)

In contrast, resistance to root rot fungus in jarrah trees has a significant heritability (Box 5.1), so jarrahs can evolve to resist the introduced dieback.

2002, Richard Frankham, David A. Briscoe, Jonathan D. Ballou, Karina H. McInnes, Introduction to Conservation Genetics, page 103:

Right here. At the foot of an enormous old-growth jarrah.

2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, page 8:

A eucalypt tree of species Eucalyptus marginata, occurring in the southwest of Western Australia.

The walls were colonial ramparts—logs of jarrah spiked into masonry—with wings as strong as Church buttresses.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Broken-Link Handicap”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 112:


red gum

Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camaldulensis#Translingual

Any of several species of trees found in Australia:

Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Murray red gum, river red gum), a eucalyptus tree with red wood.


Tasmanian blue gum

Tasmanian blue gum (plural Tasmanian blue gums)

The Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus globulus; a tall, straight tree, growing to 70 metres in height and 2 metres in trunk diameter.


gum tree

A eucalyptus tree, including trees now placed in the genera Angophora and Corymbia.


messmate

(Australia) Any of various eucalypts with rough bark, specifically Eucalyptus obliqua.


bloodwood

bloodwood (countable and uncountable, plural bloodwoods)

woody-fruited bloodwood, genus Corymbia (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Corymbia)

paper-fruited bloodwood, Corymbia subg. Blakella (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Blakella)

Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream

1904, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 20, page 578:

I cut bloodwood saplings and shaped a new pair of shafts with an adze.

1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 255:

Any of various trees having red wood:
(Australia) Certain eucalypts

Any of various trees having red wood:
Certain eucalypts

Brosimum paraense, a tree found in Central and South America.

Any of several trees from the genus Pterocarpus, of the African and Asian tropics.


manna gum

Black cockatoos screeched and scratched at the bark of a big old manna gum as if they couldn't wait to see it done for.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 53:

Any of various eucalyptus trees that exude manna, especially Eucalyptus viminalis, found in Australia.


blue gum

* blue + gum
* (person of sub-Saharan African origin): Referring to the blue coloring around their gumline.

Now there are five, solidly built, with concrete bases, galvanized poles and struts, and heavy-gauge mesh, shaded by young bluegum trees.

1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage, published 2000, page 61:

I am hoping, maybe because I am roasting out here, that it is to accommodate some breed of shady tree. Like a bluegum or a paperbark.

2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 95:

Any of various eucalyptus trees having blueish leaves, especially Eucalyptus globulus.


eucalipto

→ Hunsrik: Ëukalipt

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wes-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁su-
Proto-Hellenic *ehu-
Ancient Greek ἐΰς (eǘs)
Ancient Greek εὖ (eû)
Ancient Greek εὐ- (eu-)
Ancient Greek καλύπτω (kalúptō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek καλυπτός (kaluptós)
taxonomic name Eucalyptuslbor.
French eucalyptusbor.
Portuguese eucalipto
Borrowed from French eucalyptus. First attested in 1870.

etymon

Eucalypto (arvore-da-febre, ou gommeiro-azul), Eucalyptus globulus Labill., da Australia e d’outros logares da Oceania;[…]além de antiperiodico, o eucalypto é aconselhado nos casos de molestias chronicas da bexiga, principalmente de caharrho vesical: seu lenho é industrial e bom para construcção naval.

1881, Joaquim Monteiro Caminhoá, “Myrtaceas”, in Elementos de botanica geral e medica, volumes XI–XII, Rio de Janeiro: Typographia Nacional, page 2026:

Eucalyptus (fever tree, or blue gum), Eucalyptus globulus Labill., from Australia and other places in Oceania; […] In addition to being a antiperiodic, the eucalyptus is recommended for chronic bladder diseases, especially vesical catarrh: it has industrial timber and is good for shipbuilding.

(strictly) Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus)


bibble

en-verb

bibble (third-person singular simple present bibbles, present participle bibbling, simple past and past participle bibbled)

bibbles (present singular third-person)
bibbling (participle present)
bibbled (participle past)
bibbled (past)

From Middle English bibben (whence bib; see there for more) + -le.


stringybark

Two of the younger men carried him there on a stretcher of stringybark.

1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 54:

Any of a number of Australian eucalyptus trees with fibrous bark, or the wood or bark of such trees.


mallee

Probably borrowed from Wemba-Wemba mali; compare Woiwurrung mali.

mallee ringneck

Australian ringneck; Barnardius zonarius

The ecology of much Western Australian mallee is poorly understood, so only a few general points can be made here. Mallee dominated by eucalypts including Eucalyptus redunca and E. eremophilia is mapped as widespread (Beard, 1975) on areas of brown calcareous earths north of Esperance (Northcote et al., 1967).

1994, R. F. Parsons, “Eucalyptus Scrubs and Shrublands”, in R. H. Groves, editor, Australian Vegetation, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 301:

Large areas of mallee shrublands are now either reserved specifically for biodiversity conservation or else managed sympathetically. Fire is a prominent feature of the semi-arid lands in general and the mallee shrublands in particular.

2002, Ross A. Bradstock, Janet S. Cohn, “Fire Regimes and Biodiversity in Semi-arid Mallee Ecosystems”, in Ross A. Bradstock, Jann E. Williams, A. Malcolm Gill, editors, Flammable Australia: The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 238, column 2:

(Australia) A type of scrubland with low-growing thick eucalypts, characteristic of certain parts of Australia.

Although not totally destitute of animal life, in the summer season very few living creatures, beyond innumerable tribes of insects, are to be found within the Mallee.

1867 December, A. M., “Lost in the Mallee”, in The Colonial Monthly; an Australian Magazine, volume I (New Series), number 4, Melbourne, Vic.: Clarson, Massina, & Co., […]; Sydney: Gibbs, Shallard, & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 305:

'They're going to lynch you, Regerson,' Harry told him, grinning. 'You'd better take to the mallee before they come for you.'

1958, E. O. Schlunke, The Village Hampden: Stories, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, →OCLC:

It made no difference that he had also invented several ploughs and a device for grubbing Mallee country or that people had journeyed all the way from Melbourne to inspect them.

1985, Peter Carey, chapter 4, in Illywhacker, London: Faber and Faber, published 2003, →ISBN, page 365:

(Australia) Any semi-desert region of Australia where such scrub is the predominant vegetation.

An immense tract of country in this district is entirely occupied by a "scrub," as it is called in Colonial language, consisting of the mallee plant, Eucalyptus dumosa, the leaves of which at certain seasons become covered with this species of manna, which is known to the natives by the name of Lerp, the l being pronounced like the Italian gl.

1851 January, Thomas Anderson, “On a New Species of Manna from New South Wales. [...] (From the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for July, 1849.)”, in Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, volume I, part III, [Hobart], Tasmania: [Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land]; sold by Walch & Son, […]; Henry Dowling, […], →OCLC, pages 242–243:

The water-yielding Eucalyptus is one of the many species which pass under the name of Eucalyptus Dumosa, extending from the desert tributaries of the Murray, westward, as far as Swan River, constituting those almost impenetrable scrubs called Malleè.

1859, John Cairns, “Art. V.—On the Weir Malleè, a Water-yielding Tree, the Bulrush, and Porcupine Grass of Australia. … [Read before the Institute, 16th June, 1858.]”, in John Macadam, editor, Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, volume III, Melbourne, Vic.: Philosophical Institute of Victoria, →OCLC, page 32:

From the mallee and kurrajong trees came a rowdy chatter of parakeets, while queer soughing of air-currents came from the valley top.

1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 187:

It was almost dark by the time we reached a small rocky hill, its boulders bursting with the white plumes of spinifex in flower, and a black fuzz of leafless mallee bush.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 104:

(Australia) Any of several low-growing eucalypts characteristic of such scrubland, especially Eucalyptus dumosa, Eucalyptus oleosa, and Eucalyptus socialis.

[page 1-4, section 1.3] Of the many variations in form of the Eucalyptus (shrubs, mallees, trees, etc.), virtually all species being tested in the above category are those which exhibit good tree form (e.g., height, straightness of trunk, etc.). […] [page 2-1, section 2.2] Shrubby eucalypts are usually referred to as "mallees" although the term strictly applies to those species which have many stems growing from an enlarged rootstock (lignotuber).

1978 June, Eliseo O. Mariani, Warren A. Wood, Paul C. Kouchoukos, Mary Beth Minton, Marelco, Inc., “Introduction” and “The Eucalypts”, in The Eucalyptus Energy Farm: Feasibility Study and Demonstration: Phase 1: Site and Species Selection (HCP/T2557-01), Washington, D.C.: Division of Solar Technology, Office of Energy Technology, United States Department of Energy, →OCLC, pages 1-4 and 2-1:

Eucalypts with a mallee growth form can also be found in areas wetter than those already considered and where single-stemmed eucalypts predominate. This occurs in a variety of unfavourable habitats, either by normally single-stemmed eucalypts assuming a mallee habit (e.g., E. baxteri) or by the occurrence of distinct wet-country mallees of restricted distribution specific to such habitats.

1994, R. F. Parsons, “Eucalyptus Scrubs and Shrublands”, in R. H. Groves, editor, Australian Vegetation, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 292:

(botany, Australia) The growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber, shared by species of related genera.


mallee

[H]ence the slow progress hitherto made in the cultivation of such produce of the garden as is generally held in estimation by the European portion of the community, left as it generally is, to the simple Hindoo mallee (or gardener,) it is not to be wondered at, that our bazars want what are deemed the more delicate articles of vegetable production for the table; […]

1840, G. T. Frederic Speede, Indian Hand-book of Gardening; Containing Directions for the Management of the Kitchen and Flower Garden, etc. etc. in India: […], Calcutta: W. Thacker & Co. St. Andrew’s Library, →OCLC, page 1:

Prizes were awarded to ten other mallees for best samples of vegetables, fruits and flowers, and last though not least we have to note, that a prize of two rupees was awarded to the mallee of Robert Fulton, Esq., of Sultangunge, for a remarkably fine bunch of grapes, clearly showing that either the soil of Mr. Fulton's garden, the climate of Sultangunge, or the skill of that gentleman's gardener, are highly favorable to the growth, and bringing to maturity of this delicious fruit.

1848, “Report of Exhibitions of Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers and Agricultural Produce, Held at Bhaugulpore, on 11th February and 25th May, 1848. (Communicated by Major [T. E. A.] Napleton, Honorary Secretary Branch Agri-Horticultural Society.)”, in Journal of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India, volumes VI, part II (Correspondence and Selections), number 3, Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, →OCLC, page 125:

Telegram from Collector of Sylhet to Secretary Colonel Burne, No. 221; dated the 29th November 1871. Every necessary precaution taken to arrest spread of cholera: three camps formed, one for those attacked, one for the convalescents, one for the healthy. I sent down dhobies, sweepers, cooks, and mallees, last to dig trenches for burying the dead, when burning was not possible.

1871 November 29, “Cachar: Further Correspondence on the Subject of the Looshai Raids and the Consequent Hostilities (in Continuation of Paper, No. 398, of 1871)”, in Accounts and Papers: […], volumes X (East India—continued), [London]: […] The House of Commons, […], published 28 May 1872, →OCLC, page 301:

(India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).


eucalypt

Shortened form of the genus name Eucalyptus

Any tree of the tribe Eucalypteae of genera related and similar to Eucalyptus, such as Corymbia and Angophora.


mountain ash

en-noun

mountain ash (usually uncountable, plural mountain ashes)

On the verdant slope and down by the edge of the water, the bird-cherry and the mountain ash displayed their flowery garb of summer.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:

Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena.

1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 271:

2007, Tyler Guthrie, Mountain Ash: Formally Rowan Tree, Trinity College, Academic Dissertation.

Sorbus aucuparia
Sorbus aucuparia#Translingual

(British) A European tree, rowan or, more specifically, European rowan, of species Sorbus aucuparia.

All three mountain-ashes are shrubs of climax and subclimax northern coniferous forest communities, along with speckled alder, Labrador tea, mountain and red maples, yellow birch, and bunchberry.

1974, William M. Healy, Shrubs and Vines for Northeastern Wildlife, numbers 6-10, page 99:

To the front left of the house, just up from the sidewalk, was a mountain ash tree. Before I was born, Gramma Moody, planted the mountain ash tree there.

2008, Elna Fone Nugent, Mountain Ash: A New England Memoir, page 30:

In the hills of Appalachia, in a cove that no living man will ever find, is a Mountain Ash unlike any other in the world.

2011, Ruth Sims, The Legend of the Mountain Ash, unnumbered page:

Any of several trees in the genus Sorbus in North America.

McCarthy and Lindenmayer (1998) developed a model of the development of multi-aged Mountain Ash forest in response to fire. The model predicted the prevalence of multi-aged Mountain Ash forest as a function of the mean fire interval.

2002, Brendan Mackey, David Lindenmayer, Malcolm Gill, Michael McCarthy, Janette Lindesay, editors, Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate: A Forest Ecosystem Analysis, page 42:

A tree native to southeastern Australia, Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest of all flowering plants.

A Texan ash tree of species Fraxinus texensis.


febrer

Inherited from Late Latin Febrārius, from Latin Februārius.


coolibah

/ˈkuːlɪˌbɑː/

Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,
 Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
 And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling,
 'Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda, with me.'

1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics):

Any of a number of eucalyptus trees of central and northern Australia, in particular Eucalyptus microtheca.


karri

karri (countable and uncountable, plural karris)

As an artist keenly attracted to Western Australian gums, specifically karris and tuarts, van Raalte prioritized imaginative figurations of trees, rather than humans, in his etchings.

2018, John C. Ryan, Forest Family: Australian Culture, Art, and Trees, page 104:

The tree Eucalyptus diversicolor, native to south-western Western Australia.


sallee

Transferative use of sally, dialectal variant of sallow (“willow”).

white sallee

Eucalyptus moorei or Eucalyptus pauciflora

2006, D. J. Boland, M. I. H. Brooker, G. M. Chippendale, N. Hall, B. P. M. Hyland, R.D. Johnston, D. A. Kleinig, M. W. McDonald, J. D. Turner, Forest Trees of Australia, CSIRO, page 556,
Black sallee is most common adjacent to creeks and flats in mountainous, tableland country.

In colder regions, mountain gums and white sallees – the beautiful twisted snow gums – occur.

2009, Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia, page 136:

(Australia, used in combination) Any of various eucalypts.


spearwood

From spear + wood; named for the use made of the wood by Australian Aborigines to make spear shafts.

1966, Western Australian Forests Department, Bulletin, Issues 63-77, page 62,
Peppermint (Agonis flexuosa), attaining heights of up to 30 feet, is the principal understorey species in the south, while Banksia menziesii, Banksia grandis, Banksia attenuata, Casuarina fraseriana, black wattle and spearwood (Kunzea ericifolia) predominate in the north.

In these areas it is found usually under Spearwood, Kunzea ericifolia in low-lying situations adjoining winter-wet swamps[…].

1998, Noel Hoffman, Andrew Brown, Orchids of South-West Australia, page 201:

(Australia) The erect woody evergreen shrub Kunzea ericifolia, endemic to Western Australia.

1976, Society for Growing Australian Plants, Australian Plants, Volume 9, Issue 69 - Volume 10, Issue 84, page 379,
Clinging to the sparse soil beneath the trees are the hardy acacias — Spearwood (Acacia doratoxylon), with its long, narrow leaves (up to 10cm long by 2-5mm wide), a tall shrub with golden-yellow flower spikes to 2cm; […] .

(Australia) The shrub Acacia doratoxylon.

(Australia) The flowering vine Pandorea doratoxylon.

(Australia) The eucalypt Eucalyptus doratoxylon.


jarrahwood

The floors were paved with mellow red tiles filched from an old farmhouse and the ceilings were beamed with jarrahwood.

1989, Désirée Picton-Seymour, Historical buildings in South Africa:

And with his ghostly honking wailing he heads out the jarrahwood door. But it doesn't end there.


marri

Corymbia calophylla, an Australian tree.


ironbark

(chiefly Australia) Any of several unrelated eucalypts that have dark, deeply furrowed bark.


blackbutt

Bothered by the conviction of making no impression on her, he pulled up at a strip of road shaded by tall spotted gums, blackbutt, and honeysuckle, and produced a packet of cigarettes. "About time for a smoke-O," he said, "Have a fag, Cora.'

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 169:

I cut new timber with my saw and inhaled the sweet sour smell of blackbutt.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 175:

(chiefly Australia) Any of several Australian eucalyptus trees with a dark fibrous bark towards the base of the trunk, especially Eucalyptus pilularis, but also Eucalyptus zopherophloia and Eucalyptus todtiana.


tallowwood

tallowwood (usually uncountable, plural tallowwoods)

The Tallowwood family numbers about 27 genera and nearly 150 species of trees, shrubs and lianas scattered throughout the tropical forests of the world. […]
The tallowwoods
Ximenia L.
 These are a small genus comprising five species of widely distributed tropical trees and shrubs. One of them, X. americana L., extends northward into southern Florida.
Tallowwood hog-plum
Ximenia americana L.

1946, Ellwood Scott Harrar, Jacob George Harrar, Guide to Southern Trees, 2nd edition, New York: Dover Publications, published 1962, →ISBN, page 263:

(uncommon, by extension) The tropical fruit-tree genus Ximenia.


woollybutt

(Australia) Any of several types of eucalyptus that have a wooly or stringy bark


apere

river red gum tree, (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)


swamp gum

Any of various species of Eucalyptus found in Australia.

Two years before, under the swamp-gum in their Mosman garden, away from the children's ears, they had talked of separating, but the discussion itself, conducted around mugs of coffee in those green and secure surroundings, had scared them out of it.

1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 51:


flintwood

flintwood (countable and uncountable, plural flintwoods)


ghost gum

Arkady's job was to identify the ‘traditional landowners’ […] and to get them to reveal which rock or soak or ghost-gum was the work of a Dreamtime hero.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 4:

What Norm could do with stories he had practised down to a fine art and glued it to surviving relics, like the still-to-be-found fire-gutted ghost gum willed by providence to the families' memories of Westside […].

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 102:

Any of various Australian evergreen trees of the genus Corymbia, especially Corymbia papuana.


Eucalyptus

desctree

→ French: eucalyptus
→ Catalan: eucaliptus
→ English: eucalyptus
→ Portuguese: eucalipto
→ Hunsrik: Ëukalipt

Coined by French botanist Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle in 1788 from Ancient Greek εὐ- (eu-, “well”) + Ancient Greek καλυπτός (kaluptós, “covered”). The name refers to the operculum of the flower bud, which protects the developing flower parts as the flower develops and is shed by the pressure of the emerging stamens at flowering.

af

A taxonomic genus within the family Myrtaceae – a group of trees native to and widespread in Australia, also native to nearby islands, as far north as the Philippines.


cabbage gum

Eucalyptus amplifolia, a tree of Australia.


yapunyah

Eucalyptus ochrophloia, a eucalypt native to inland New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia.


lapunyah

Any of three species of Australian eucalypts, Eucalyptus ochrophloia, Eucalyptus thozetiana and Eucalyptus argophloia.


flooded gum

en-noun

flooded gum (countable and uncountable, plural flooded gums)

There were no locks on the door and you could get an education or work in the bush planting flooded gum.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 384:

(Australia) Any of several eucalypts that flourish in damp soil, especially Eucalyptus grandis and Eucalyptus rudis.


tuart

Tuart is usually a tall tree attaining 25–40 m in height and 1–2 m dbh, but in the northern part of its distribution it may be reduced to about 10–15 m in height.

2006, Douglas J. Boland et al., Forest Trees of Australia, 5th edition, CSIRO Publishing, page 284:

2009, Richard Allen, Australia's Remarkable Trees, Melbourne University Publishing (The Miegunyah Press), page 8,
Today only a quarter of the original Tuart forests and woodlands remain.

As an artist keenly attracted to Western Australian gums, specifically karris and tuarts, van Raalte prioritized imaginative figurations of trees, rather than humans, in his etchings.

However, due to overlogging, the tuart is a protected tree with conditions placed on logging.

2019, Morris Lake, Australian Forest Woods, CSIRO Publishing, page 105:

Eucalyptus gomphocephala, an Australian tree with heavy, durable wood.


peppermint tree

peppermint tree (plural peppermint trees)

Maybe even a peppermint tree, broad and moppish and spicy like the ones lining Eliza's street.

2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 95:

(chiefly Australia) Any of several species of eucalypt which yield an essential oil that smells of peppermint, especially a member of the stringybark group.

(chiefly Australia) A tree of the family Myrtaceae bearing leaves that smell of peppermint, especially willow myrtle, Agonis flexuosa, often colloquially called a peppy.


floodgum

The paperbarks and floodgums that shroud us look eerie and ethereal in the silver light, and I find myself matching Jasper's step.

2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, page 5:

(Australia) The flooded gum, Eucalyptus rudis.


bastard mahogany

bastard mahogany (plural bastard mahoganies)

(Australia) Any of various eucalypts with hard wood, especially Eucalyptus botryoides.

(Caribbean) A tree of the soapberry family, Matayba apetala.


forest mahogany

forest mahogany (plural forest mahoganies)

River red gum (Eucalyptus spp., esp. Eucalyptus camaldulensis).


iron gum

(Australia) Any of various eucalypts of eastern Australia known for their hard wood.


marlock

(Australia) Any of various small eucalypts of southwest Australia.


orange gum

An Australian tree of species Angophora costata syn. Angophora lanceolata.


ribbon gum

(Australia) Any of various eucalypts whose bark peels off in ribbons, especially the manna gum, Eucalyptus viminalis.


river gum

If you wait under the rivergum where those up-to-no-good Mission-bred kids accidentally hanged Cry-baby Sally, the tip of the dead branch points to where you will see how the serpent's breath fights its way through in a tunnel of wind […].

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 2:

Any of various eucalypts that grow on riverbanks, especially the river red gum, Eucalyptus camaldulensis.


rose gum

Any of various eucalypts having rose-coloured bark or wood, especially Eucalyptus grandis.


black ash

Any tree of species Fraxinus nigra, native to much of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.


snow gum

A toppled snow gum blocks the track and Jack stands aside while M hacks a step into both sides of the giant log.

1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 16

On they went, crawling and tottering across the dolerite mountains of the Central Highlands and scattering kangaroos and wombats that looked back at them from between the snow gums.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 78

(Australia) Any of various eucalypts associated with snowy areas, especially Eucalyptus pauciflora, a flowering shrub of southeastern Australia and Tasmania occurring either side of the snowline; and Eucalyptus coccifera of subalpine Tasmania.


rainbow eucalyptus

rainbow eucalyptus (plural rainbow eucalyptuses)

A tree of the species Eucalyptus deglupta with striking coloured streaks on its bark, native to New Guinea, Mindanao, and islands off Southeast Asia.


lemon eucalyptus

lemon eucalyptus (countable and uncountable, plural lemon eucalyptuses)

Corymbia citriodora
Corymbia citriodora#Translingual

Corymbia citriodora, a lemon-scented eucalypt native to Australia


Corymbia

A taxonomic genus within the family Myrtaceae – about 113 species of tree that were classified as Eucalyptus species until the mid-1990s. It includes the bloodwoods, ghost gums and spotted gums, endemic to Australia and New Guinea.


ユーカリ

[jɯ̟ːka̠ɾʲi]

Ultimately from New Latin Eucalyptus, as a shortening of English eucalyptus.

eucalyptus (any of many trees of genus Eucalyptus)


玉樹

Phono-semantic matching of Tibetan ཡུལ་ཤུལ (yul shul).

psm

/y⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂu⁵¹/

/jʊk̚² syː²²/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sʰiu²²/

/ɡiɔk̚²⁴⁻² t͡sʰiu⁴¹/

/ɡiɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu²²/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sʰiu³³/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sʰiu³³/

/y⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂu⁵¹/

/jʊk̚² syː²²/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sʰiu²²/

/ɡiɔk̚²⁴⁻² t͡sʰiu⁴¹/

/ɡiɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu²²/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sʰiu³³/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sʰiu³³/

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eukaliptus

pl-noun

eukaliptus m inan (related adjective eukaliptusowy)

eukaliptusowy (adjective)
eukaliptus (nominative singular)
eukaliptusy (nominative plural)
eukaliptusa (genitive singular)
eukaliptusów (genitive plural)
eukaliptusowi (dative singular)
eukaliptusom (dative plural)
eukaliptus (accusative singular)
eukaliptusy (accusative plural)
eukaliptusem (instrumental singular)
eukaliptusami (instrumental plural)
eukaliptusie (locative singular)
eukaliptusach (locative plural)
eukaliptusie (singular vocative)
eukaliptusy (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin eucalyptus.

lbor

eucalyptus (any tree of the genus Eucalyptus)


桉樹

/ˀän⁵⁵ ʂu⁵¹/

/ɔːn⁵⁵ syː²²/

/ˀän⁵⁵ ʂu⁵¹/

/ɔːn⁵⁵ syː²²/


mugga

Eucalyptus sideroxylon, a species of eucalyptus endemic to eastern Australia.


黃金樹

ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄕㄨˋ

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂu⁵¹/

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂu⁵¹/


gum coolibah

Eucalyptus intertexta, the inland red box or western red box, a tree native to Australia.


bạch đàn

[ʔɓajk̟̚˧˨ʔ ʔɗaːn˨˩]

[ʔɓat̚˨˩ʔ ʔɗaːŋ˦˩]

[ʔɓat̚˨˩˨ ʔɗaːŋ˨˩]

Santalum album
Santalum album#Translingual


candlebark

In the Nariel Valley there are immense and lovely candlebarks rising singly from the rich paddocks where the dairy cattle graze.

1950, Elyne Mitchell, Australian Treescapes: A Photographic Study:

Candlebark is best seen just south of the end of Jerrabomberra Avenue on its western side.

1968, Lindsay Dixon Pryor, Trees in Canberra, Incorporating a New Section on Woody Shrubs:

Shafts of sunlight poured through the tall ferns and candlebark trees that lined King Parrot Creek, along which they drove until the road opened into a beautiful green valley at Flowerdale.

2006, Alan Pilkington, Four of Diamonds: An Australian's Journey, page 195:


snappy gum

The timber consists of Scribbly gum (known here as Snappy Gum), Mountain Ash, pepperment, interspersed with patches of Bloodwood, Mohogany, Stringy Bark, and Apple and on the sides of the mountain gullies to the south grows sparsely Iron Bark, box (Eupts. quadrangulata) and Water Gum.

1902 July 15, The Australasian Beekeeper, page 9:

The first six children born had sat beside her under the shade of a snappy gum until she erected a more permanent shade with two blankets.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 14:

(Australia) Any of various eucalypts having brittle timber, including Eucalyptus brevifolia, Eucalyptus haemastoma and Eucalyptus rossii.


yellow gum

Any of various plants which produce a yellow resin, some of which are used medicinally:

Trees of genus Nyssa, of North America and Asia.


symphyomyrtle

Partial calque of translingual Symphyomyrtus.


kayu putih

Compound of kayu (“wood”) + putih (“white”), from Malay kayu putih.


barzaafe

barzaafe (predicative)
barzaafe (nominative without-modifier)
barzaafe (nominative with-modifier)
barzaafete^(*)) (genitive without-modifier)
barzaafe^(*)) (genitive with-modifier)
barzaafete (dative without-modifier)
barzaafera (dative with-modifier)
barzaafe^(*)) (accusative)
barzaafetenni (ablative without-modifier)
barzaafenni (ablative with-modifier)

Borrowed from Amharic ባህር ዛፍ (bahr zaf).


white gum

He nodded at a slope once covered in white gums, a folk memory returning.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 151

Any of numerous Eucalyptus species having smooth white bark.


silver-leaved bloodwood

en-noun

silver-leaved bloodwood (plural silver-leaved bloodwoods)

Corymbia collina, a species of bloodwood tree native to Australia.


river red gum

Around lunchtime we crossed a creek with river-red-gums growing in its bed.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 128:

(Australia) A red gum tree of species Eucalyptus camaldulensis (syn. E. rostrata Schltdl., nom. illeg.).


yellow box

gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)

‘[T]he old man would sit his horse out there in the shade of a yellowbox that grew just outside the garden fence.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 61:

Deep in the bush, beneath the pale disc of the moon, a dozen men gathered around a yellow-box fire.

2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 284:

(Australia) Any of various eucalyptus trees, especially Eucalyptus melliodora of southeastern Australia.

See also: severe thunderstorm watch

(informal, US, meteorology) A "tornado watch" notification category.


silver-leaved ironbark

silver-leaved ironbark (plural silver-leaved ironbarks)

Annabelle recognised the silver-leaved ironbarks, stunted and twisted in their growth, pale golden wattle in bloom, the dense scrub pressing to the verge of the road.

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 270:

A small tree with blue-grey foliage, Eucalyptus melanophloia, of Queensland and northern New South Wales.


narrow-leaved mallee

narrow-leaved mallee (plural narrow-leaved mallees)

Eucalyptus angustissima, a species of mallee eucalyptus tree.


khuynh diệp

[xwïŋ̟˧˧ ziəp̚˧˨ʔ]

[kʰwɨn˧˧ jiəp̚˨˩ʔ]

[xwɨn˧˧ jiəp̚˨˩ʔ]

[kʰwɨn˧˧ jip̚˨˩˨]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 傾 (“to lean, to tilt”) and 葉 (“leaf”).


ដើមប្រេងខ្យល់

km-noun

ដើមប្រេងខ្យល់ • (daəm preeng khyɑl)


eucalipto robusto

es-noun

eucalipto robusto m (plural eucaliptos robustos)


eucalipto rosado

eucalipto rosado m (plural eucaliptos rosados)

flooded gum, rose gum, Eucalyptus grandis.


mahogany gum

A grove of mahogany gums at Penders in New South Wales suggests a degree of deliberate horticultural shaping […].

2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 139:

(Australia) Any of several trees of the genus Eucalyptus with hard, dark timber; the wood of these trees.


cider gum

An hour passes before the first sign of any prior trip appears […] . Then, not far on, a black blaze on a cider gum trunk.

1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 14

(Australia) Any of various eucalypts, especially the Tasmanian tree Eucalyptus gunnii, which has a sweet, drinkable sap.


Eucalyptus nitens

Eucalyptus f (“eucalyptuses”) + Latin nitēns (“shining, glittering, bright; sleek”).

affix

Eucalyptus ser. Globulares
Wikispecies:Eucalyptus ser. Globulares

A taxonomic species within the series Eucalyptus ser. Globulares – shining gum or silvertop, a species of eucalyptus tree.


Eucalyptus yumbarrana

desc

→? English: Yumbarra mallee (partial calque)

Eucalyptus f + New Latin yumbarrana f (“of Yumbarra National Park”)

affix

A taxonomic species within the family Eucalyptus – Yumbarra mallee, a species of eucalyptus tree.

Eucalyptus subser. Decussatae – subseries


Strickland's gum

en-noun

Strickland's gum (plural Strickland's gums)

From Strickland + -'s + gum, a calque of translingual Eucalyptus stricklandii.

calque

Eucalyptus stricklandii, a species of small eucalyptus or gum tree endemic to western Australia.


Eucalyptus subg. Symphyomyrtus

Symphyomyrtus is obsolete genus name, synonymized with Eucalyptus.

A taxonomic subgenus within the family Myrtaceae – symphyomyrtles.


યુકેલિપ્ટસ

head

યુકેલિપ્ટસ • (yukelipṭas) n

gu-noun

યુકેલિપ્ટસ • (yukelipṭas) n

યુ‧કે‧લિપ્‧ટસ


Ëukaliptbaam

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wes-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁su-
Proto-Hellenic *ehu-
Ancient Greek ἐΰς (eǘs)
Ancient Greek εὖ (eû)
Ancient Greek εὐ- (eu-)
Ancient Greek καλύπτω (kalúptō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek καλυπτός (kaluptós)
taxonomic name Eucalyptuslbor.
French eucalyptusbor.
Brazilian Portuguese eucaliptobor.
Hunsrik Ëukalipt
Proto-Germanic *bagmaz?
Proto-West Germanic *baum
Old High German boum
Middle High German boum
Central Franconian Boom
Hunsrik Baam
Hunsrik Ëukaliptbaam
From Ëukalipt + Baam.

etymon

eucalyptus (any tree of the genus Eucalyptus)