Definitions for gum-tree

gum-tree gum tree

Gum-Tree is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in gum-tree (-eegmrtu).

Definitions for gum-tree

noun

  1. any tree that exudes gum, as a eucalyptus, the sour gum, or the sweet gum.
  2. any of various other gum-yielding trees, as the sapodilla.

Origin of gum-tree

An Americanism dating back to 1670-80

Examples for gum-tree

Of the gum tree there are found upwards of 150 species, many of which are of great value.

Nest in a bunch of seed pods in a gum tree, ten feet from the ground.

But it was warm beneath the gum tree where the fire leaped and roared.

He was sitting with his back against a gum tree, and his feet towards the fire.

The wood is longer grained, and more tough, splitting easier and more true than any other species of the gum tree.

That I do, for the gum tree is as familiar to my eyes as anything can be on so dark a night as this.

The gum tree stood there lately, but Robert James sleeps with his fathers.

The Australian Eucalyptus globŭlus (a gum tree) has been successfully introduced.

Next morning he was sitting with his back against the gum tree.

The gum tree proved to be a sapling of no great promise or pretensions.

Word Value for gum-tree
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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