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FLOODED GUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flooded gum mean?
• FLOODED GUM (noun)
The noun FLOODED GUM has 1 sense:
1. any of several Australian gum trees growing on moist or alluvial soil
Familiarity information: FLOODED GUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several Australian gum trees growing on moist or alluvial soil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("flooded gum" is a kind of...):
eucalypt; eucalyptus; eucalyptus tree (a tree of the genus Eucalyptus)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flooded gum"):
Eucalypt grandis; rose gum (very tall tree of Queensland and New South Wales)
cider gum; Eucalypt gunnii (small to medium-sized tree of Tasmania)
Eucalypt tereticornis; forest red gum (tall tree of Queensland and New South Wales and Victoria)
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