| 单词 | mallee scrub |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmallee scrub a. More fully mallee scrub. A vegetation community consisting of dense scrub dominated by low-growing bushy eucalypts, characteristic of semi-desert areas of Victoria and some other parts of southern Australia. ΘΚΠ 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 1845 Standard (Melbourne) 7 June 2/6 The stock..are..driven into an almost impenetrable scrub, termed by the natives ‘Malley’. 1857 W. Howitt Tallangetta II. xii. 2 This Mallee scrub..consists of a dense wood of a dwarf species of gum-tree. 1898 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Romance of Canvas Town 37 Far off, amidst the sea-like expanse of the mallee..rise sombre, sharply-defined peaks and ranges. 1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby ix. 249 On the Wimmera Plains is massed the dwarf eucalyptus known as the Mallee Scrub, the roots of which make such ideal firewood. 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King ii. 10 They passed through the mallee belt, then out on to plain country. 1944 A. Russell Bush Ways xxii. 104 I think of the mallee scrubs and red gum fringes of the lower Murray River. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 184 To describe the ‘scrub’ of northern Victoria as the Mallee. 1966 G. Durrell Two in Bush v. 166 Mallee scrub consists of a small species of eucalyptus between six and twenty feet high, and in places the trees grow very close together, their branches entwining and forming a continuous canopy. 1990 L. Battle Past is Another Country (1991) 10 It would be good fun to help clear the mallee, cutting and burning it up in a bonza fire. mallee scrub 3. spec. mallee scrub ( Eucalyptus oleosa) and horizontal scrub ( Anodopetalum biglandulosum), native trees of Australasia, common in thickets and undergrowth. tea-scrub: see tea tree n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs burrawang1826 water gum1826 kaikomako1832 karaka1834 kawa-kawa1838 peppermint1838 bottle tree1844 ngaio1849 Grevillea1853 red birch1853 wooden pear1860 muskwood1866 sugar-tree1866 tulip-tree1866 hop-bush1883 mock orange1884 mountain beech1884 sage tree1884 tile-seed1884 mutton-bird scrub1889 red birch1889 silver-tree1889 whalebone-tree1889 budda1890 camphor laurel1894 pepperbush1895 mustard bush1898 willow myrtle1898 pigeon wood1899 horizontal scrub1909 turkey-bush1911 pandani1923 mock orange1929 1857 W. Howitt Tallangetta II. xii. 2 This Mallee scrub..consists of a dense wood of a dwarf species of gum-tree. 1909 G. Smith Nat. Tasmania 117 The most formidable constituent of this underscrub is the..Horizontal Scrub. < as lemmas |
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