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ghost gum en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any of various Australian evergreen trees of the genus Corymbia, especially Corymbia papuana.
   • Arkady's job was to identify the ‘traditional landowners’ […] and to get them to reveal which rock or soak or ghost-gum was the work of a Dreamtime hero. 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 4:
   • What Norm could do with stories he had practised down to a fine art and glued it to surviving relics, like the still-to-be-found fire-gutted ghost gum willed by providence to the families' memories of Westside […]. 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 102:

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