| 单词 | mulga bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmulga bush Categories » mulga bush n. see sense 2. mulga bush 2. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Acacia (family Mimosaceae ( Leguminosae)) native to dry inland regions of Australia and often forming dense scrub (also mulga tree, mulga bush); esp. A. aneura, with grey-green foliage sometimes used as fodder; frequently attributive. Also: the hard yellowish-brown wood of mulga trees; = mulga-wood n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun] acacia1542 babul1696 marblewood1753 black wattle1802 popinac1809 wattlec1810 wattle-treec1810 giraffe tree1815 haakdoring1822 hookthorn1822 kameeldoorn1822 camel-thorn1824 catechu-tree1829 silver wattle1832 blackthorn1833 thorny acacia1834 boobyalla1835 seyal1844 mulga1848 thorn-wood1850 hackthorn1857 mimosa1857 poison tree1857 Port Jackson1857 talha1857 golden wattle1859 whitethorn acacia1860 buffalo thorn1866 nelia1867 siris1874 cassie1876 couba1878 needlebush1884 sallow wattle1884 sally1884 giddea1885 prickly Moses1887 yarran1888 opopanax tree1889 wait-a-while1889 fever tree1893 giraffe acacia1896 stay-a-while1898 brigalow1901 wirra1904 cootamundra1909 Sydney golden wattle1909 witchetty bush1911 rooikrans1917 jam-tree1934 whistling thorn1949 blackthorn1966 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [adjective] brigalow1847 mulga1848 talha1857 1848 T. L. Mitchell Jrnl. Exped. Trop. Austral. 176 On the summit, grew the Malga tree; which is an acacia of such very hard wood. 1858 J. M. Stuart Jrnl. 18 June in Explor. Austral. (1864) 6 The hills are..destitute of timber, except..the mulga bushes in the sand hills. 1862 H. Kendall Poems & Songs 79 Look for the malga, and salt-bitten shrubs. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 400 The boundless ocean-plains..where the saltbush grows, and the myall and the mulgah. 1893 R. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker II. 36 She wanted to see if there were any late mulgams..and..did find some untimely berries. 1900 R. Bruce Benbonuna (1904) 361 A nervous hand clutched a long, heavy mulga spear. 1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling x. 88 The graceful grey mulga trees..came right down to the river. 1938 D. M. Bates Passing of Aborigines 190 I built an enclosing breakwind of mulga bushes. 1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 5 On the stony hills, the mulga trees gave no shade. 1981 A. B. Cribb & J. W. Cribb Useful Wild Plants Austral. 103 More book ends, serviette rings and ink stands must have been made from mulga than from any other Australian timber. 2000 Land (N. Richmond, New S. Wales) 1 June (Trader section) 31/1 (advt.) Mainly soft red country with..excellent stands of mulga. < as lemmas |
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