river gum

English

Alternative forms

• rivergum

Noun

river gum (plural river gums)

1. Any of various eucalypts that grow on riverbanks, especially the river red gum, Eucalyptus camaldulensis.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 2:

     If you wait under the rivergum where those up-to-no-good Mission-bred kids accidentally hanged Cry-baby Sally, the tip of the dead branch points to where you will see how the serpent's breath fights its way through in a tunnel of wind […].