swamp gum

English

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)
      • 1927 Jan, “Notes on the Reptiles and Amphibians of the Dismal Swamp”, in Copeia‎[1], number 162, Burton Hall, Northampton, Mass.: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, →OCLC, page 26:
        This area was formerly covered by cypress but this is now replaced by a dense growth of swamp gum, swamp maple and similar trees, closely interwoven with Smilax and Toxicodendron, forming an impenetrable tangle […]
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