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Black gum   /blæk gəm/   Listen
Black gum

noun
1.
Columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall.  Synonyms: Nyssa sylvatica, pepperidge, sour gum.
2.
A small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt; yields a red eucalyptus kino gum.  Synonyms: black mallee, black sally, Eucalytus stellulata.





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... some black insects which made black gum on the creosote bush. Then he made a termite which worked with the small earth cake until it grew very large. As he sang and danced upon it, the flat World stretched out on all sides until it was as large as ...
— Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest • Katharine Berry Judson


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