Definition of "white-gum" [white-gum]

• In medicine, an eruption of whitish spots surrounded by a red areola, occurring about the neck and arms of infants; strophulus albidus. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A section of white-gum trunk had been drilled out all over to take a hedgehog of pencils."
• "The higher parts are more thickly grassed and are slightly wooded with stunted timber, consisting of box, apple, white-gum, cotton, and other trees."
• "Thus, the so called white-gum is the same tree in both colonies; the mungat, or raspberry-jam tree, is common to both; and also to the plains of New"