blackbutt Austral.
(ˈblækbʌt)
Also black butt, black-butt.
[black a., butt n.3 2.]
An Australian timber tree, Eucalyptus pilularis. Earlier, black-butted gum.
| 1801 C. Grimes in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1915) 1st Ser. III. 414 The finest stringy-bark and black-butted blue-gum trees I ever saw. 1820 J. Oxley Jrnls. Two Exped. N.S.W. 331 The timber was chiefly black butted gum. 1847 Leichhardt Jrnl. ii. 49 The range..having, with the exception of the Blackbutt, all the trees..of Moreton Bay. 1901 Daily Chron. 3 Sept. 7/4 Fencing post of blackbutt, forty-five years in the ground. 1934 Archit. Rev. LXXVI. 70/2 In addition jarrah, blackbutt, mountain ash and blackwood from Australia..are all good flooring timbers. |