noun
1. any of several trees having leaves or bark used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
2. tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish
• Syn: ↑blue gum, ↑Eucalyptus globulus
• Hypernyms: ↑eucalyptus, ↑eucalypt, ↑eucalyptus tree
3. ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever
• Syn: ↑Georgia bark, ↑bitter-bark, ↑Pinckneya pubens
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pinckneya, ↑genus Pinckneya
4. African tree supposed to mark healthful regions
• Syn: ↑Acacia xanthophloea
• Hypernyms: ↑acacia
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Acacia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.