[GUM sb.2 5.] Any species of Eucalyptus with white or light-colored bark. Also White gum-tree.
1827. P. Cunningham, Two Years in N. S. Wales, I. xii. 200. The red and white gums [so named] from their wood.
1827. Trans. Linnæan Soc., XV. 278. [The ground-parrot] chiefly breeds in a stump of a small White Gum-tree.
1891. Argus (Melbourne), 13 May. On the lower slopes [of the ranges] the bluegum trees become first commingled with trees locally designated whitegum and black butt.
