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swamp gum en · NOUN
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Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia.
Two years before, under the swamp-gum in their Mosman garden, away from the children's ears, they had talked of separating […].
1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 51:
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Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. ▸ Eucalyptus bensonii (mountain swamp gum)
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Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. ▸ Eucalyptus camphora (mountain swamp gum)
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Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. ▸ Eucalyptus ovata
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Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. ▸ Eucalyptus regnans
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Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. ▸ Eucalyptus rudis
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(qualifier:North Carolina; South Carolina) Either of two species of Nyssa native to the southeast United States. ▸ Nyssa aquaticus (water tupelo)
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(qualifier:North Carolina; South Carolina) Either of two species of Nyssa native to the southeast United States. ▸ Nyssa biflora (swamp tupelo)
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 […]
1927 Jan, “Notes on the Reptiles and Amphibians of the Dismal Swamp”, in Copeia, number 162, Burton Hall, Northampton, Mass.: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, →OCLC, page 26:
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