ghost gum

English
a ghost gum Corymbia ficifolia

Noun

ghost gum (plural ghost gums)

  1. Any of various Australian evergreen trees of the genus Corymbia, especially Corymbia papuana. [from 20th c.]
    • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 4:
      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.
    • 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 […].

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