单词 | wallum |
释义 | wallumn. Australian. 1. A tall evergreen shrub, Banksia æmula, common in parts of Australia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian > evergreens Pimelea1793 epacris1805 tauhinu1848 mikimiki1858 mingi1867 mingimingi1867 cottonwood1889 wallum1889 Geraldton wax1920 epacrid- 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 383 Banksia marginata, Cav.,.. ‘Honeysuckle’. The ‘Wallum’ of the aboriginals of Wide Bay (Queensland). 1890 F. M. Bailey Catal. Indigenous & Naturalised Plants Queensland 103/2 Wallum, Banksia æmula. 1979 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 29 July 18/3 The wallum banksia dominates the dune scrub with its magnificent large flowers atop the serrated leaves. 2. The heathland along the Queensland coast where this is common. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > moor or heath mooreOE moorlandeOE heathOE fella1400 burgh-moorc1600 rosland1704 heath-land1819 wallum1965 1965 Austral. Encycl. IX. 310/1 In Queensland, the Wallum coastal formation stretching north of Brisbane has a varied heathland type of flora. 1970 W. W. Bryan in R. M. Moore Austral. Grasslands vii. 107 North of Maryborough rainfall in the Wallum is only 40–45 in. 1979 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 24 June 9/6 CSIRO projects on similar tracts of coastal wallum have shown it can be transformed relatively inexpensively by the aerial application of trace elements. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1889 |
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