Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging or relating to the plant genus Eucalyptus.
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Examples
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We were up and after the camels and horses long before daylight, tracking them by the light of burning torches of great bunches and boughs of the mallee trees -- these burn almost as well green as dry, from the quantity of aromatic eucalyptic oil contained in them -- and enormous plots of spinifex which we lighted as we passed.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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Its flesh is strong and muscular, and its eucalyptic odour is stronger still.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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