name given by Cloez to a
hydrocarbon obtained by subjecting <i>Eucalyptol</i> (q.v.) to
dehydration by phosphorus pentoxide. The same name has also
been given by other chemists to a hydrocarbon believed to occur
in eucalyptus oil.

<hw>Eucalyptian</hw>, <i>adj</i>. playfully formed; not in
common use.

1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush Ballads,' p. 8:

"Gnarl'd, knotted trunks Eucalyptian
Seemed carved, like weird columns Egyptian,
With curious device--quaint inscription
And hieroglyph strange."

<hw>Eucalyptic</hw>, <i>adj</i>. full of gumtrees.

1873. J. Brunton Stephens, `Black Gin, etc.,' p.6:

"This eucalyptic cloisterdom is anything but gay."

<hw>Eucalyptol</hw>, <i>n.</i> a volatile oil of camphor-like
smell, extracted from the oil of <i>Eucalyptus globulus</i>,
Labill., <i>E. amygdalina</i>, Labill., etc. Chemically
identical with cineol, got from other sources.

<hw>Eucalyptus</hw>, <i>n.</i> the gum tree. There are 120
species, as set forth in Baron von Mueller's `Eucalyptographia,
a Descriptive Atlas of the Eucalypts of Australia.' The name
was first given in scientific Latin by the French botanist
L'Heritier, in his <i>Sertum Anglicum</i>, published in 1788.
From the Greek <i>'eu</i>, well, and <i>kaluptein</i>, to cover.
See quotation, 1848. <i>N.O. Myrtaceae</i>. The French now say
<i>Eucalyptus</i>; earlier they called it <i>l'acajou de la
nouvelle Hollande</i>. The Germans call it <i>Schoenmutze</i>.
See <i>Gum</i>.

1823. Sidney Smith, `Essays,' p. 440:

"A London thief, clothed in Kangaroo's skins, lodged under
the bark of the dwarf eucalyptus, and keeping sheep, fourteen
thousand miles from Piccadilly, with a crook bent into the
shape of a picklock, is not an uninteresting picture."

1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. i. c. ii. p. 80:

"A large basin in which there are stunted pines and eucalyptus
scrub."

1848. W. Westgarth, `Australia Felix,' p. 132:

"The scientific term Eucalyptus has been derived from the
Greek, in allusion to a lid or covering over the blossom,
which falls off when the flower expands, exposing a four-celled
capsule or seed-vessel."

1851. G. W. Rusden, `Moyarra,' canto i. p. 8:

"The eucalyptus on the hill
Was silent challenge to his skill."

1879. `Temple Bar,' Oct., p. 23 ('0. E. D.'):

"The sombre eucalypti . . . interspersed here and there by
their dead companions."

1886. J. A. Froude, `Oceana,' p. 118:

"At intervals th