Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The wood of a gum tree, especially of a sweet gum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wood of a gum-tree.
- noun A plant of the genus Commidendron, an arborescent composite peculiar to the island of St. Helena.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
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Examples
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The large gumwood cabinet clashes with the living room's well-considered furnishings, but at least it does sound better than the old set -- until "the interference" begins.
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The decline of the St. Helena gumwood Commidendrum robustum.
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A small gumwood stand survives at Peak Dale; the remainder of the island is covered by pasture, abandoned flax plantations, replanted woodland, dry rocky lowland, and some semi-natural shrubland vegetation.
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The walls of the first floor are finished in oiled and waxed gumwood.
Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School Edwin L. Miller
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Large masses of Java teak and Yellow wood have also been found, besides immense trees of red and white cedar, and the blue gumwood of New Holland, in a perfectly sound condition.
Chapter XX 1909
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The east had grown pale, there was a murmur from the dark forests on either bank, the timorous chirping or bad-tempered squawk of a bird, a faint fragrance of burning gumwood from the fishing villages established on the river bank, where, in dancing spots of light, the women were tending their fires.
The Keepers of the King's Peace Edgar Wallace 1903
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The country around Hickory is rolling, falling away somewhat boldly on the south and southwest towards the outlying spurs of the South Mountains; less boldly towards the north and northwest, where it expands itself in gently undulating folds; the whole covered with a not very dense growth of oak, hickory, chestnut and pine, with an undergrowth of dogwood, gumwood and chinquepin.
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You can bet that when we put that house up for sale the first thing we mentioned to every potential buyer wasn't the brand new kitchen or the newly refinished hardwood floors or the original gumwood moldings, no.
dooce® main feed 2009
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The house features hd flrs, meticulously restored gumwood, fp in LR, gourmet granite kit, temperature controlled wine cellar & surround sound throughout.
Curbed SF 2008
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Quite a few species once thought to be extinct have been rediscovered in recent times, including the local ebony (Trochetiopsis ebenus), St. Helena olive (Nesiota elliptica), false gumwood (Commidendrum spurium) and bastard gumwood (Commidendrum rotundifolium).
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