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Examples of eucalypt in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Road trips through the bush, red dirt and tall eucalypts to find shade under.
—Sophie Martin, refinery29.com, 2 May 2024
But, with too few gum trees—as Aussies call eucalypts—on French Island, where many have been removed for cattle and sheep grazing, the koalas are essentially eating themselves out of house and home.
—Elizabeth Warkentin, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024
Australia’s massive bushfires, which were contained in mid-February and declared over in early March, left eucalypt forests scorched and the ground, too dry to absorb the following rainfall.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2020
His eucalypts were to afford him time to write meaningful novels instead of commercial bestsellers, to get him out of debt, to change his life.
—The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
Jack London, who was to become one of America’s first writers of world renown, studied endless pamphlets about the promise of eucalypts.
—The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
New research suggests that many plants that have adapted well to a fiery landscape or indeed need fire to reproduce, such as some pines, eucalypts and proteas, first appeared around this time, some 90 million years ago.
—Andrew C. Scott, Time, 1 June 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1877, in the meaning defined above
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“Eucalypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eucalypt. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
eucalypt
noun
eu·ca·lypt
ˈyü-kə-ˌlipt
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