yellow gum

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Noun

yellow gum

  1. Any of various plants which produce a yellow resin, some of which are used medicinally:
    1. (Australia) Any of various plants of eastern Australia, especially Xanthorrhoea resinosa and Eucalyptus leucoxylon; also (obsolete) the resin itself.
      • 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 13:
        ‘See that yellow gum with the double trunk,’ says Jack, pointing, ‘remember him.’
    2. Trees of genus Nyssa, of North America and Asia.
  2. (medicine, now Scotland) Melena or black jaundice in infants.
    Synonym: icterus infantum

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