swamp gum

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Noun

swamp gum (plural swamp gums)

  1. Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia.
    • 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 51:
      Two years before, under the swamp-gum in their Mosman garden, away from the children's ears, they had talked of separating […] .
    1. Eucalyptus bensonii (mountain swamp gum)
    2. Eucalyptus camphora (mountain swamp gum)
    3. Eucalyptus ovata
    4. Eucalyptus regnans
    5. Eucalyptus rudis
  2. (North Carolina, South Carolina) Either of two species of Nyssa native to the southeast United States.
    1. Nyssa aquaticus (water tupelo)
    2. Nyssa biflora (swamp tupelo)
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