red gum

Meanings

1. Any of several species of trees found in Australia:
2. Corymbia calophylla (marri), native to Western Australia, with red gum effusions.
3. Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Murray red gum, river red gum), a eucalyptus tree with red wood.
4. Eucalyptus macrorhyncha (red stringybark, Cannon's stringybark, capertee stringybark)
5. Eucalyptus tereticornis (forest red gum), with red wood.
6. A tree of the hazel family, of species Liquidambar styraciflua, found in North America.

1. Alternative form of red-gum (“strophulus”).

Etymology

Alteration (due to gum) of earlier red gown, reed gounde, from Middle English redgownd, redgound, radegound, radegund, equivalent to red + gound.