gum-tip
(AU) The young outer leaves of a gum tree.
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(AU) The young outer leaves of a gum tree.
Now, if you went down into the forest where the spring gum-tips gleam gold and ruby in whatever sunshine, Heaven thinks fit to apportion at this season to residents of the Dandenongs (who surely were all born Aquarians) what sign of the …
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