blue gum

1. 1.

   tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish

   Synonymsfever treeEucalyptus globulus

   Broadereucalyptus

Questions about blue gum

What does blue gum mean?

blue gum means "tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish".

What is another word for blue gum?

Close synonyms include fever tree, Eucalyptus globulus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue gum a common word?

blue gum is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.