It has smooth satiny or glossy, dark grey to orange, green-brown bark on its fluted trunk.

[3][4][5] Eucalyptus terebra was first formmaly described in 1991 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal Telopea from specimens they collected near Balladonia in 1983.

[5][6] The specific epithet (terebra) is a Latin word for the woodworking tool called a gimlet.

[5] Balladonia gimlet grows in flat areas in the southern part of the Goldfields-Esperance region in calcerous loam or sandy soils.

[3][4] This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.