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

1. : any of several Australian timber trees of the genus Eucalyptus; specifically : a tree (E. globulus) now much cultivated especially in California

2. : a bluish gum held in American Negro folklore to be characteristic of a Negro whose bite is fatally poisonous

eucalyptus.

[1795-1805]

blue gum noun

Any of several species of Eucalyptus (espE. globulus)

Main Entry: ↑blue

blue gum,

a eucalyptus.

n. a eucalyptus tree with blue-green aromatic leaves and smooth bark. ● Genus Eucalyptus, family Myrtaceae: several species, in particular E. regnans