A eucalyptus is an Australian tree with pale peeling bark and oily leaves. Eucalyptus oil, a stand of eucalyptus, the smell of eucalyptus.
The oil is flammable enough that the trees encourage fire and then regrow from buds under the bark, which is a strategy rather than an accident. Koalas eat almost nothing else, and the leaves are toxic to most other animals.
1nouneucalyptusAn Australian tree with pale peeling bark and oily leaves.
“The air smelled of eucalyptus as we walked through the forest near Sydney.”
eucalyptus is a tree.
French
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English, today
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Borrowed from French eucalyptus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA