peppermint tree
noun1
Australia Any of several species of eucalypt which yield an essential oil that smells of peppermint, especially a member of the stringybark group.
- Maybe even a peppermint tree, broad and moppish and spicy like the ones lining Eliza's street.2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 95:
2
Australia A tree of the family Myrtaceae bearing leaves that smell of peppermint, especially willow myrtle, Agonis flexuosa, often colloquially called a peppy.