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Meanings of fever tree in English

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eucalyptus globulus

Tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish.

eucalyptus globulus

Ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever.

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Examples for "blue gum"
Examples for "blue gum"
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The blue gum forest was not particularly thick, and now it was all submerged.
Chaosbound
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The flats on either side became slightly timbered, and blue gum was the prevailing tree.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume...
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I want to see Gâo once again, Gâo with its blue gum-trees and its green water.
Atlantida
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The hills were particularly rich and thickly clothed with fine timber, blue gum, and stringy bark.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
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Decades of dead leaves and blue gum mulched into the ground with mounds of peeling bark.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
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Take the case of the Eucalyptus globulus as an example.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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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 (?).
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883

African tree supposed to mark healthful regions.

Usage of fever tree in English
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Powell sensed Reich, a hundred feet away, back against a fever tree, bow and arrows clutched in his stricken hands.
The Demolished Man
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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.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
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With shady groves of fever trees and palms, this route was irresistible, but the price was often malaria.
The world without us
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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.
The Guardian
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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.
The Guardian
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"They are called ' fever trees.'"
The Mysterious Island
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