swamp gum

plural swamp gums

1. Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia.

   Two years before, under the swamp-gum in their Mosman garden, away from the children's ears, they had talked of separating […].

   1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 51

   1. Eucalyptus bensonii (mountain swamp gum)
   2. Eucalyptus camphora (mountain swamp gum)
   3. Eucalyptus ovata
   4. Eucalyptus regnans
   5. Eucalyptus rudis
2. Either of two species of Nyssa native to the southeast United States.
   1. North Carolina; South CarolinaNyssa aquaticus (water tupelo)
   2. North Carolina; South CarolinaNyssa biflora (swamp tupelo)

      This area was formerly covered by cypress but this is now replaced by a dense growth of swamp gum, swamp maple and similar trees, closely interwoven with Smilax and Toxicodendron, forming an impenetrable tangle […]

      1927 Jan, “Notes on the Reptiles and Amphibians of the Dismal Swamp”, in Copeia, number 162, Burton Hall, Northampton, Mass.: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, →OCLC, page 26