Meaning of ghost gum | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of various Australian evergreen trees of the genus Corymbia, especially Corymbia papuana.

Examples

“Arkady's job was to identify the ‘traditional landowners’ […] and to get them to reveal which rock or soak or ghost-gum was the work of a Dreamtime hero.”

“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 […].”

CEFR level