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BLUE GUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blue gum mean?
• BLUE GUM (noun)
The noun BLUE GUM has 1 sense:
1. tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish
Familiarity information: BLUE GUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
blue gum; Eucalyptus globulus; fever tree
Hypernyms ("blue gum" is a kind of...):
eucalypt; eucalyptus; eucalyptus tree (a tree of the genus Eucalyptus)
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