单词 | boobyalla |
释义 | boobyallan. Chiefly Australian. Any of various Australian shrubs or trees which are typically found in sandy or coastal regions; spec. (a) a subspecies of wattle, Acacia longifolia sophorae (family Fabaceae), which has spikes of bright yellow flowers; (b) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Myoporum (family Scrophulariaceae), which have clusters of small pink or white flowers and are frequently cultivated as ornamental plants, hedges, and windbreaks; also with distinguishing word. 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 1835 Ross's Hobart Town Almanack & Van Diemen's Land Ann. 63 Acacia sophora, Sophora podded Acacia or Booby-aloe. 1843 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies iv. 59 The sand-banks at the mouth of Macquarie Harbour are covered with Boobialla, a species of Acacia, the roots of which run far in the sand. 1861 L. A. Meredith Over the Straits ii. 62 Boobyalla bushes lay within the dash of the ceaseless spray. 1880 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 7 Feb. 12/1 A variety of Myoporum serratum, called by the aborigines of the Western district the Boobiala. 1888 Victorian Naturalist 4 182 After a stroll round the town, during which we saw some fine Boobialla trees, Myoporum insulare, we..started on the five-mile walk to Muddy Creek. 1934 Antiquity 8 182 Sand dunes clothed with boobyallas and other indigenous shrubs. 1976 C. Eagle Four Faces 168 He came out, straight into the barley sown right up to the boobyalla hedge on the western side of the house. 1993 Austral. Mammal. 16 1/1 The dunes are mostly covered with grasses..with some patches of Boobyalla (Acacia sophorae). 2005 P. Bagust & L. Tout-Smith Native Plants Adelaide 32 M. insulare (Coastal Boobialla) and M. Parvifolium are coastal specialists. M. vicosum (Sticky Boobialla) was once found scattered in many localities. 2015 Warrnambool (Austral.) Standard (Nexis) 9 Dec. We will take out the boobyalla which was planted, from what I can tell, to protect the chook sheds that were originally there. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1835 |
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