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Eucalyptus (Science: botany) a myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or... Read More

Gum The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws. (Science: medicine) gum rash,... Read More

operculum A lid or cover becoming detached at maturity by abscission, in eucalyptus (for example), a cap covering the bud... Read More

Reviewed by: Mary Anne Clark, Ph.D.When Charles Darwin was in the Galapagos Islands, one of the first things he... Read More