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In America, a "bluegum" is offensive slang for a lazy African-American who refuses to work.
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It was upheld on all sides by heavy wooden supports of bluegum and stringy bark, the scarred surfaces of which made them look like the hieroglyphic pillars in old Egyptian temples.
Madame Midas 2003
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Other income-generating opportunities are the sale of river sand and the harvesting of wood from bluegum trees at the water edge.
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They said the burial site was in a bluegum plantation and was difficult to work in because forest debris had to be removed before they started digging.
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The Mpumalanga capital Nelspruit has decided to destroy all bluegum trees within its municipal boundaries, as part of the fight against the worst drought in the Loweveld.
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The most suitable trees for forestry were exotics, such as the bluegum and pine.
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The fire broke out in a bluegum plantation and swept across the
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It was upheld on all sides by heavy wooden supports of bluegum and stringy bark, the scarred surfaces of which made them look like the hieroglyphic pillars in old Egyptian temples.
Madame Midas Fergus Hume 1895
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The yarra, or bluegum, not only grew on its banks, but spread over the flats; but I remarked that where the reeds grew thickest most of the trees were dead; and that almost all bore on their trunks the marks of inundation.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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Running water was gushing from every hollow in much greater abundance than elsewhere; and lastly the timber, which on the other ranges consisted chiefly of ironbark and stringybark, now presented the shining bark of the bluegum or yarra and the grey hue of the box.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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