eucalyptus

See also: Eucalyptus

English

Eucalyptus rubida

Etymology

Coined by Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle in 1788 from Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “well”) + καλυπτός (kaluptós, “covered”), from καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”). The name refers to the operculum of the flower bud, which protects the developing flower parts as the flower develops and is shed by the pressure of the emerging stamens at flowering.

Flower buds of Eucalyptus erythrocorys. At upper left, the red operculum covers the developing stamens, hence the name eu-calyptus = well covered.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪptəs
• IPA^(key): /ˌjuːkəˈlɪptəs/

Noun

eucalyptus (plural eucalypti or eucalyptuses)

1. Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.

   Synonyms: gum tree, eucalypt

   Hyponyms: gum, mallee, stringybark, ironbark, blackbutt, yate, yellow box

2. A greenish colour, like that of a eucalyptus leaves.

   eucalyptus:  

Hyponyms

• (tree): box, gimlet

Derived terms

• eucalyn
• eucalyptoid
• eucalyptol
• eucalyptole
• fuchsia eucalyptus (Eucalyptus forrestiana)
• lemon eucalyptus
• lemon eucalyptus (Corymbia citriodora)
• oil of lemon eucalyptus
• rainbow eucalyptus
• rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta)

 

Translations

any of many trees of genus Eucalyptus

• Abkhaz: аевкали́пт (ajevkʼalípʼtʼ)
• Afrikaans: bloekom
• Amharic: ባህር ዛፍ (bahr zaf)
• Arabic: أُوكَالِبْتُوس m (ʔūkālibtūs), يُوكَالِيبْتُوس m (yūkālībtūs)
• Armenian: եվկալիպտ (evkalipt)
• Asturian: eucalitu m, eucaliptus m
• Azerbaijani: evkalipt
• Bashkir: эвкалипт (evkalipt)
• Belarusian: эўкалі́пт m (eŭkalípt)
• Bengali: ইউক্যালিপটাস (bn) (iukkalipoṭaś)
• Bulgarian: евкали́пт m (evkalípt)
• Burmese: ယူကလစ်တပ်ပင် (yuka.lactappang)
• Catalan: eucaliptus m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 桉樹／桉树 (zh) (on1 syu6)

  Mandarin: 桉樹／桉树 (zh) (ānshù)

• Chuvash: эвкалипт (evkalipt)
• Czech: blahovičník (cs) m, eukalyptus (cs) m
• Danish: eukalyptus c
• Dutch: eucalyptus (nl) m
• Esperanto: eŭkalipto
• Estonian: eukalüpt
• Finnish: eukalyptus (fi)
• French: eucalyptus (fr) m, eucalypte (fr) m
• Galician: eucalipto (gl) m
• Georgian: ევკალიპტი (evḳaliṗṭi)
• German: Eukalyptus (de) m
• Greek: ευκάλυπτος (el) m (efkályptos)
• Guaraní: eukalíto (gn)
• Gujarati: નીલગિરી (nīlgirī)
• Hebrew: אֵקָלִיפְּטוּס (he) m (ekaliptus)
• Hindi: नीलगिरी (nīlgirī)
• Hungarian: eukaliptusz (hu)
• Icelandic: tröllatré n, ilmviður m
• Ido: eukalipto (io)
• Indonesian: eukaliptus (id)
• Irish: eocalaip f
• Italian: eucalipto (it) m, eucalitto m
• Japanese: ユーカリ (yūkari)
• Kannada: ನೀಲಗಿರಿ (kn) (nīlagiri)
• Kazakh: эвкалипт (évkalipt)
• Khmer: ដើមប្រេងខ្យល់ (daəm preeng khyɑl)
• Komi-Zyrian: эвкалипт (evkaľipt)
• Korean: 유칼리나무 (yukallinamu)
• Kumyk: эвкалипт (ewkalipt)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قەڵەمتۆس (qellemtos)

  Northern Kurdish: okalîptûs m

• Kyrgyz: эвкалипт (evkalipt)
• Lao: ວິກ (vik)
• Latin: eucalyptus
• Latvian: eikalipti m
• Lithuanian: eukaliptas m
• Macedonian: еукалиптус m (eukaliptus)
• Malayalam: യൂക്കാലിപ്റ്റസ് (ml) (yūkkālipṟṟasŭ)
• Maori: purukamu
• Marathi: निलगिरी (nilgirī)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: эвкалипт (evkaĺipt)

• Navajo: akʼah sisíʼí tsin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eukalyptus m

  Nynorsk: eukalyptus m

• Occitan: eucaliptus (oc) m
• Ossetian: эвкалипт (èvkalipt)
• Persian: اکالیپتوس (fa)
• Polish: eukaliptus (pl) m
• Portuguese: eucalipto (pt) m
• Quechua: kalistu
• Romanian: eucalipt (ro) m
• Russian: эвкали́пт (ru) m (evkalípt)
• Sardinian: equalitu m, eucalitu m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: еукалѝптус m

  Roman: eukalìptus (sh) m

• Sicilian: eucaliptu m, eucalittu m
• Slovak: eukalyptus (sk) m, blahovičník m
• Slovene: evkalipt (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: eukalyptus m

  Upper Sorbian: eukalyptowc m

• Spanish: eucalipto (es) m
• Swahili: mkalitusi
• Swedish: eukalyptus (sv) c, gummiträd n
• Tagalog: eukaliptus
• Tajik: эвкалипт (evkalipt)
• Tatar: эвкалипт (ewkalipt)
• Telugu: యూకలిప్టస్ (yūkalipṭas)
• Thai: ยูคาลิปตัส (yoo-kaa-líp-dtàt)
• Tongan: pulukamu
• Turkish: okaliptüs (tr)
• Turkmen: ewkalipt
• Ukrainian: евкалі́пт m (evkalípt)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: эвкалипт (uz) (evkalipt)

  Roman: evkalipt (uz)

• Vietnamese: bạch đàn (vi) (白檀)
• Welsh: ewcalyptws m
• Yakut: эвкалипт (evkalipt)

Further reading

• eucalyptus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Coined by Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle in 1788 from Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “well”) + καλυπτός (kaluptós, “covered”), from καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ø.ka.lip.tys/
• Hyphenation: eu‧ca‧lyp‧tus

Noun

eucalyptus m (plural eucalyptus)

1. eucalyptus

Derived terms

• eucalyptus citronné

Descendants

• → Catalan: eucaliptus
• → English: eucalyptus

Further reading

• “eucalyptus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.