eucalyptus

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On the morrow Eva Chadleigh, for so she was called, was leaving her childhood's home, where she had lived all her life, and going to cross the water to the old--though to her new--country Sprinkled all down the mountain sides were fair white villas, or wooden châlet-like houses, with their terraces and gardens, and most of them surrounded by trees, of which the eucalyptus was the most common.

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  1. noun Any of numerous tall trees of the genus Eucalyptus, native to Australia and having aromatic leaves that yield an oil used medicinally and wood valued as timber.

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  • Now, eucalyptus is as typically Australian as the platypus—but what may cause our botanist some dismay is that clumps of bamboo nestle between and near some of the tall trees. —  AUGUST, 1953 VOL
  • The half-dozen varieties of eucalyptus are there because somebody in California once thought that eucalyptus was a valuable timber tree, whereas actually its wood is not good for building, is poor for furniture and not even good for firewood. —  AUGUST, 1953 VOL
  • Scrub-bushes, eucalyptus, and oak crowded what had been the Hollywood Hills. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • I stood still for a moment, savoring the heat and the scents that filled the air—dry grass, eucalyptus, and bay laurel. —  The Dangerous Hour - Muller, Marcia - Sharon McCone 23
  • The wind gusted here as strongly as on Ong's hill, bringing with it a mixed bouquet of cypress, eucalyptus, and bay laurel. —  dummy2
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  1. New Latin Eucalyptus, genus name : Greek eu-, eu- + Greek kaluptos, covered (from kaluptein, to cover; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots).
 

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