red gum

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red gum^¹

noun red gums

Corymbia calophylla (marri), native to Western Australia, with red gum effusions.
Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Murray red gum, river red gum), a eucalyptus tree with red wood.
Similar: river red gum
Eucalyptus macrorhyncha (red stringybark, Cannon's stringybark, capertee stringybark)
Eucalyptus tereticornis (forest red gum), with red wood.
A tree of the hazel family, of species Liquidambar styraciflua, found in North America.
Similar: sweet gum, sweet gum-tree

red gum^²

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Alteration (due to gum) of earlier red gown, reed gounde, from Middle English redgownd, redgound, radegound, radegund, equivalent to red + gound.

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alternative Alternative form of red-gum (“strophulus”).

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@misc{red_gum_2026,
  title = {red gum},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/red%20gum},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}