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单词 mulga
释义

mulga

/ˈmʌlɡə /
noun
1 (also mulga tree or bush) A small Australian acacia tree or shrub with greyish foliage, which forms dense scrubby growth and yields brown and yellow timber.
  • Genus Acacia, family Leguminosae; several species, especially Acacia aneura.
Here the public and shooters hang dead feral cats from an old mulga, and at any time there may be dozens of the stinking carcases dangling like macabre Christmas decorations....
  • All around us we see southern Australia with mulga trees outside.
  • Wood such as mulga, ironwood, redgum and desert oak is used.
1.1 [mass noun] An area of scrub or bush dominated by mulgas.They walked on in silence after that, blindly stumbling through the patches of thick mulga scrub....
  • It runs for about 25 kilometres, but it doesn't run in a square, it sort of runs in stages around this lovely big piece of mulga sand plain that Peter's chosen as the ideal spot.
  • Make no mistake about it; there is an art to driving your huge tyred monster through the swamps, mulga and rain forest.
1.2 (the mulga) Australian informal The outback.You can forget about the spinifex country and most of the mulga country....
  • Making camp in the Mulga we drew water from the Bore for showers & washing, settling in for a well deserved day off.
  • They spent weeks camping out in the mulga.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Kamilaroi, Yuwaalaraay, and other Aboriginal languages of New South Wales and South Australia.

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