boronian.
/bɒˈrəʊnɪə/ A plant of the rutaceous genus so named, a sweet-scented Australian shrub.
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1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. ii. 76 The Boronias shoot up their slender stems..towards the sun.
1896 Melburnian 28 Aug. 53 The scent of boronia and the odour of wattle-blossom greet us from baskets of the flower-girl.
1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks v. 55 Ti-tree, boronia-bushes, and prickly acacia.
1966 Times 11 Nov. (W. Aust. Suppl.) p. iv/2 The scent of the boronia's monk-brown-and-golden bells.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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