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单词 myall
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myall

/ˈmʌɪəl /
noun
1An Australian acacia tree with silvery foliage sometimes used as fodder.
  • Genus Acacia, family Leguminosae: several species, in particular A. pendula, which has violet-scented timber.
2Australian An Australian Aboriginal living in a traditional way.I was told that they shot down myalls up and down the Lander River for many miles....
  • The luluing of the famished myall mingled with the howl of the hunting dingo.
  • Telfer's accounts of this and other pitched battles with ‘myalls’ might be dismissed by the sceptic as unsupported hearsay.

Origin

Mid 19th century (in sense 1): sense 2 from Dharuk myal, miyal 'person from another tribe'; sense 1 is perhaps an unexplained transferred use of sense 2.

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