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eucalyptus
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of many trees, of genus ''Eucalyptus'', native mainly to Australia. 2 A greenish colour, like that of a eucalyptus.
Wikipedia
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber a tree of the genus Eucalyptus [syn: eucalypt , eucalyptus tree ] [also: eucalypti (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bloodwood \Blood"wood\, n. (Bot.) A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood. Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree ( Baloghia lucida ), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
evergreen genus of Australia, 1789, from Modern Latin, coined 1788 by French botanist Charles Louis L'héritier de Brutelle (1746-1800) from Greek eu "well" (see eu- ) + kalyptos "covered" (see Calypso ); so called for the covering on the bud.
Usage examples of eucalyptus.
The higher he drove, the further they drew back from the street, keeping to the shadows of redwood, eucalyptus, and ailanthus, except for a few corner stuccos, parrot-bright.
The day was away back in the alcheringa and it had been very still and very hot, and the whole tribe, with the exception of one man, lay amongst the bracken in the shade of big eucalypti and lesser myrtles and other scrub.
Either the eucalyptuses had perished and had been replaced ages ago, or the street had been named by an arboricultural ignoramus.
Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the Eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.
Eucalyptus, citronella, cedarwood, tea-tree oil and pennyroyal are among the best.
There were deodars, Douglas firs, casuarinas, gum trees, eucalypti, hibiscus, cedars, and other trees, generally of a moderate size, for their number prevented their growth.
A dry wind had come up from the south and in the eucalyptus trees the grackles teetered and screamed.
The eucalyptus branches swayed above my brother, Nance safely tucked into his arms.
The customary essences of neroli, eucalyptus and cypress were meant only as a cover for the actual scent that he intended to produce: that was the scent of humanness.
Houk drew up underneath the overhanging eucalyptus trees on Paseo Delicias and switched off his engine.
He galloped away along the Lower Road, in the direction of Quien Sabe, emerging from the grove of cypress and eucalyptus about the ranch house, and coming out upon the bare brown plain of the wheat land, stretching away from him in apparent barrenness on either hand.
Eucalyptus bicolor-and stunted Banksia serrata, and Callistemon lanceolatus tried to find sustenance.
The Ubi is remarkable for a greater variety of colouring than the more level districts, in which the eye is wearied by the monotonous grey-blue of the eucalyptus.
That night, as the odors of jasmine and eucalyptus, bamboo groves and fish mingled with the smells from tens of thousands of braziers, and wafted onto the ship, Ling Mei woke to the feel of a footstep on the deck.
In the mild breezes of the west and of the east the lofty trees wave in different directions their firstclass foliage, the wafty sycamore, the Lebanonian cedar, the exalted planetree, the eugenic eucalyptus and other ornaments of the arboreal world with which that region is thoroughly well supplied.