Portuguese
eucalyptus globulus Tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish.
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The blue gum forest was not particularly thick, and now it was all submerged.
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The flats on either side became slightly timbered, and blue gum was the prevailing tree.
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I want to see Gâo once again, Gâo with its blue gum-trees and its green water.
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The hills were particularly rich and thickly clothed with fine timber, blue gum, and stringy bark.
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Decades of dead leaves and blue gum mulched into the ground with mounds of peeling bark.
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Powell sensed Reich, a hundred feet away, back against a fever tree, bow and arrows clutched in his stricken hands.
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When he was gone the slave stood, brushed his threadbare clothing, and took up his station beneath the fever tree again.
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With shady groves of fever trees and palms, this route was irresistible, but the price was often malaria.
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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.
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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.
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Take the case of the Eucalyptus globulus as an example.
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This property of adhering to smooth surfaces explains perhaps the power of the Eucalyptus globulus in arresting the progress of paludal miasm (?).