Meaning of snappy gum | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of various eucalypts having brittle timber, including Eucalyptus brevifolia, Eucalyptus haemastoma and Eucalyptus rossii.

Australia

Examples

“The timber consists of Scribbly gum (known here as Snappy Gum), Mountain Ash, pepperment, interspersed with patches of Bloodwood, Mohogany, Stringy Bark, and Apple and on the sides of the mountain gullies to the south grows sparsely Iron Bark, box (Eupts. quadrangulata) and Water Gum.”

“The first six children born had sat beside her under the shade of a snappy gum until she erected a more permanent shade with two blankets.”

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