eucalyptus

See also: Eucalyptus

English

Eucalyptus rubida

Etymology

From French eucalyptus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

eucalyptus (plural eucalypti or eucalyptuses)

1. Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.
2. A greenish colour, like that of a eucalyptus leaves.

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Synonyms

• (tree): gumtree, eucalypt

Hyponyms

• (tree): gum, mallee, stringybark, box, ironbark, blackbutt, yate, gimlet

Derived terms

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

 

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 (iukkalipoṭaś)
• Bulgarian: евкали́пт m (evkalípt)
• Burmese: ယူကလစ်တပ်ပင် (yuka.lactappang)
• Catalan: eucaliptus m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 桉樹／桉树 (on¹ syu⁶)

  Mandarin: 桉樹／桉树 (zh) (ānshù), 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)
• Komi-Zyrian: эвкалипт (evkaľipt)
• Korean: 유칼리나무 (yukallinamu)
• Kumyk: эвкалипт (ewkalipt)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: эвкалипт (evkalipt)
• Latin: eucalyptus
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• 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

• 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)
• Welsh: ewcalyptws m
• Yakut: эвкалипт (evkalipt)

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

eucalyptus m (plural eucalyptus)

1. eucalyptus

Further reading

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