ghost gum
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.82 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of various Australian evergreen trees of the genus Corymbia, especially Corymbia papuana.
Example Sentences
- "Arkady's job was to identify the ‘traditional landowners’ […] and to get them to reveal which rock or soak or ghost-gum was the work of a Dreamtime hero."
- "What Norm could do with stories he had practised down to a fine art and glued it to surviving relics, like the still-to-be-found fire-gutted ghost gum willed by providence to the families' memories of Westside […]."