floodedadj.
1. In the senses of the verb.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [adjective] > flooded
overflown1579
surroundedc1595
flotten1601
aflooda1729
submergent1834
flooded1836
overflooded1860
inundated1875
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > flooded
overdrowned1616
overfloweda1671
deluged1712
waterwashed1808
flooded1836
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xxi. 381 From the flooded floor the water was soaking through the seams.
1855 J. S. C. Abbott Hist. Napoleon II. iv. 76 ‘Pardon!,' she exclaimed, with..flooded eyes.
1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. 130 Madox had..saved Cathcart's life in a flooded creek.
2. flooded gum n. Australian any of several eucalypts growing in damp soil.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees
yellow box1662
gum tree1676
white gum tree1733
whip-stick1782
peppermint1790
red gum tree1790
red mahogany1798
white gum1798
box1801
blue gum1802
eucalyptus1809
box tree1819
black-butted gum1820
bloodwood1827
white ash1830
blackbutt1833
morrel1837
mountain ash1837
mallee scrub1845
apple gum1846
flooded gum1847
Moreton Bay ash1847
mallee1848
swamp gum1852
box-gum1855
manna gum1855
white top1856
river gum1860
grey box1861
woolly butt1862
marlock1863
fever tree1867
red ironbark1867
river white gum1867
karri1870
yellow jacket1876
eucalypt1877
yapunyah1878
coolibah1879
scribbly gum1883
forest mahogany1884
yellow jack1884
rose gum1885
Jimmy Low1887
nankeen gum1889
slaty gum1889
sugar-gum1889
apple box1890
Murray red gum1895
creek-gum1898
eucalyptian1901
forest red gum1904
river red gum1920
napunyah1921
whitewash gum1923
ghost gum1928
snow gum1928
Sydney blue gum1932
salmon gum1934
lapunyah1940
1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. x. 324 The latter part of the stage was again over a large box-flat, intersected by shallow grassy depressions, timbered with flooded-gum.
1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New S. Wales 136 Flooded gum, Eucalyptus rostrata, saligna, viminalis, resinifera.
1933 D. G. Stead Tree Bk. 24 A splendid tree is the Sydney Blue Gum, also called Flooded Gum. This tree grows to more than 150 feet high in the eastern forests of New South Wales and southern Queensland.
1965 Austral. Encycl. III. 405/1 Large Sydney blue gums or flooded gums (E. saligna) at Tamborine Mountain.
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