snappy gum
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of various eucalypts having brittle timber, including Eucalyptus brevifolia, Eucalyptus haemastoma and Eucalyptus rossii.
Australian usage
Example Sentences
- "The timber consists of Scribbly gum (known here as Snappy Gum), Mountain Ash, pepperment, interspersed with patches of Bloodwood, Mohogany, Stringy Bark, and Apple and on the sides of the mountain gullies to the south grows sparsely Iron Bark, box (Eupts. quadrangulata) and Water Gum."
- "The first six children born had sat beside her under the shade of a snappy gum until she erected a more permanent shade with two blankets."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
brittle gum
scribbly gum
Frequently Paired Words
brittle gum
scribbly gum