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river gum en · NOUN
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Any of various eucalypts that grow on riverbanks, especially the river red gum, Eucalyptus camaldulensis.
If you wait under the rivergum where those up-to-no-good Mission-bred kids accidentally hanged Cry-baby Sally, the tip of the dead branch points to where you will see how the serpent's breath fights its way through in a tunnel of wind […].
2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 2:
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