ghost gum

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English

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Noun

ghost gum (plural ghost gums)

Any of various Australian evergreen trees of the genus Corymbia, especialy Corymbia papuana. [from 20th c.]
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 102:
  What Norm could do with stories he had practised down to a fine art and glued it to surviving relics, like the still-to-be-found fire-gutted ghost gum willed by providence to the families' memories of Westside […].

Further reading

ghost gum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Corymbia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Corymbia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
ghost gum at Tropicos

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