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Definition of geebung in English: geebungnoun ˈdʒiːbʌŋˈjēbəNG An Australian shrub or small tree which bears creamy-yellow flowers and small green fruit. Genus Persoonia, family Proteaceae Example sentencesExamples - So has anyone munched any other types of geebungs and could share their tasting notes?
- The general park area was extensively hunted for wallabies, snakes, birds, honey, turtles and their eggs, fresh water mussels, ripe water-lily bulbs, geebungs and the fruit of the ‘noocui’ or pig's face plant.
- Visitors from Sydney will notice the flannel flowers - many of the peas, boronias, mint-bushes, geebungs and tea trees, however, belong to inland species.
- Changes in soil conditions in this area have produced an equally varied understorey of shrubs, with ferns, wattles, banksias, hakeas and geebungs, and a number of native grasses.
- In the thick, unfelled bush above the horse-and-cattle yards were native hop, ‘sarsaparilla,’ the bottle-brush flower of the wild honey suckle, together with geebungs, wild cherry, eucalyptus, wattle, kurrajong, and pine.
Origin Early 19th century: from Dharuk. Definition of geebung in US English: geebungnounˈjēbəNG An Australian shrub or small tree which bears creamy-yellow flowers and small green fruit. Genus Persoonia, family Proteaceae Example sentencesExamples - So has anyone munched any other types of geebungs and could share their tasting notes?
- Visitors from Sydney will notice the flannel flowers - many of the peas, boronias, mint-bushes, geebungs and tea trees, however, belong to inland species.
- In the thick, unfelled bush above the horse-and-cattle yards were native hop, ‘sarsaparilla,’ the bottle-brush flower of the wild honey suckle, together with geebungs, wild cherry, eucalyptus, wattle, kurrajong, and pine.
- The general park area was extensively hunted for wallabies, snakes, birds, honey, turtles and their eggs, fresh water mussels, ripe water-lily bulbs, geebungs and the fruit of the ‘noocui’ or pig's face plant.
- Changes in soil conditions in this area have produced an equally varied understorey of shrubs, with ferns, wattles, banksias, hakeas and geebungs, and a number of native grasses.
Origin Early 19th century: from Dharuk. |