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Here, the sugar maples, red maples, gum trees, and hickory trees show off their autumn colors; they’re also complemented by ferns, Japanese maples, and woody shrubs in the gardens, creating one of Asheville’s most spectacular sights.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2024
Sometimes the marsupials sat practically at eye level, watching us with their sleepy eyes from the crook of a gum tree limb, but most times the adults were positioned higher up.
—Elizabeth Warkentin, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024
But, with too few gum trees—as Aussies call eucalypts—on French Island, where many have been removed for cattle and sheep grazing, the koalas are essentially eating themselves out of house and home.
—Elizabeth Warkentin, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024
That sentiment is also common in Cape Otway, Victoria, a forested triangle of coastline where a small cohort of French Island koalas was reintroduced in the 1980s—and quickly boomed, gnawing its way through the region’s manna gum trees.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2024
Invasive black wattle, pine and gum trees crowd the jagged slopes that encircle this region’s sprawling wine lands, displacing native vegetation and choking off precious water that would otherwise trickle into the city’s reservoirs.
—Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
Last month, Answer Man visited the London gum tree.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
For each one eliminated, officials plan to plant several new trees, such as Canary Island pines, African Tulip trees, flowering red coal gum trees and other species.
—Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
Even the surrounding gum trees seemed in on the secret; the usual rustle of their leaves absent in the stillness.
—Sandra L. Rostirolla, Good Housekeeping, 5 Apr. 2023
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First Known Use
1676, in the meaning defined above
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“Gum tree.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gum%20tree. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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