We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of blue gum in English
Portuguese
eucalyptus globulus Tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish.
Synonyms
Examples for "fever tree"
Examples for "fever tree"
1
Powell sensed Reich, a hundred feet away, back against a fever tree, bow and arrows clutched in his stricken hands.
2
When he was gone the slave stood, brushed his threadbare clothing, and took up his station beneath the fever tree again.
3
With shady groves of fever trees and palms, this route was irresistible, but the price was often malaria.
4
If you really want to let the taste of your fancy gin sing, try Fever Tree, whose tonic is drier and cleaner than the norm.
5
As my mother read it to us, we were transported to Africa, to the Great Grey Greasy Limpopo River all hung about with fever trees.
1
Take the case of the Eucalyptus globulus as an example.
2
This property of adhering to smooth surfaces explains perhaps the power of the Eucalyptus globulus in arresting the progress of paludal miasm (?).
Usage of blue gum in English
1
The blue gum forest was not particularly thick, and now it was all submerged.
2
The flats on either side became slightly timbered, and blue gum was the prevailing tree.
3
I want to see Gâo once again, Gâo with its blue gum-trees and its green water.
4
The hills were particularly rich and thickly clothed with fine timber, blue gum, and stringy bark.
5
Decades of dead leaves and blue gum mulched into the ground with mounds of peeling bark.
6
I have a smell about me like a blue gum-tree, for the ointment he gave contains eucalyptus oil.
7
The blue gum and stringy bark are also very common on these flooded lands, and of the best description.
8
Further, I could not get down the tree, which had a trunk as smooth and branchless as a blue gum.
9
Indeed the other timber, which consisted chiefly of common blue gum, was far larger than usually seen on forest lands.
10
The timber generally might be termed heavy, consisting of blue gum, stringy bark, and iron bark, with fine forest oaks.
11
Eucalyptus and blue gum trees form a towering canopy enshrouding one's path from the outside world and calming frantic city minds.
12
The blue gum (eucalyptus) luxuriates on the margin of rivers, and grows in such situations to an enormous size.
13
Poplars, willows, and the blue gum grow quickest, are least affected by the high winds, and are therefore the most popular.
14
Miles and miles of pasture stretched around her, broken here and there by thick scrub and occasional groups of blue gum trees.
15
I want to see Gâo, the village on the bank of the river, and the blue gum trees, and the green water.
16
I sowed a quantity of vegetable seeds here, also seeds of the Tasmanian blue gum-tree, some wattles and clover, rye and prairie-grass.
This collocation consists of:
Blue gum through the time
Blue gum across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common