| 单词 | nelia tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnelia tree Any of several Australian wattles, esp. Acacia rigens and A. loderi (also more fully nelia tree); (also) the wood of such a wattle. Frequently attributive. Cf. needlebush n. at needle n. 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 1867 Illustr. Sydney News 16 Jan. 104/2 The banks of the Murray—abound in fancy woods... The sweetly scented myall is known, but their is another description, known by the blacks as Nelia... Both woods are valuable, from their colour and texture, for cabinet work. 1885 Once a Month (Melbourne) June 448 The wood..is what is used by the blacks for making their spears. They call it Neelya. 1921 J. H. Maiden Forest Flora of New S. Wales VII. 252 There are at least three Nealies, and the present one may be called the ‘Broad-leaved Nealie’. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Nov. 21/4 Two miles farther on..was a mile~wide stretch of nelia scrub. 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xxxviii. 326 Where had all the mulga gone, the whitewood, and acacias, and turpentine bush, the black oak and nelia, and bullocky bush, the thick shrub life that had carpeted this country when he rode through here a boy? 1965 Austral. Encycl. VI. 266/2 The so-called ‘Nealie’, Acacia rigens, is sometimes referred to as needle-bush, because of its long terete phyllodes. 1984 Aboriginal Hist. 8 24 ‘Nilyah’ spelt ‘nelia’ in many reference books is the local English name for Acacia loderi. 1996 Australian (Nexis) 14 May This is when Liza ‘came out of her shell’, travelling from station to station by wagonette..throughout belar and neighbouring nelia tree countries and into Wiradjuri country in search of work. < as lemmas |
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