0 a tree, found especially in Australia, that produces an oil with a strong smell. The oil is used in medicine and industry: --
It is commonly known as the eucalyptus snout beetle, the eucalyptus weevil or the gum tree weevil.
The inn's name, in turn, referred to a giant red gum tree which stood nearby.
Adult gum tree weevils feed mostly on leaves and the soft bark of twigs while the larvae feed mostly on leaves.
These settlers worshipped under a local gum tree, which still exists on the opposite side of the road from the church.
The school originally centred around a large blue gum tree, where it held assemblies.
The black gum tree weighed over a ton and was thirty inches in diameter.
Two bodies were found under a gum tree on a distant part of the run in 1914.
The last gum tree was cut down in 1952.
