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Any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts
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mallee
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mallee may refer to: Mallee (habit) , the habit of woody plants that grow with multiple stems from underground lignotubers
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of scrubland with low-growing thick eucalypts, characteristic of certain parts of Australia. (from 19th c.) 2 Any semi-desert region of Australia where such scrub is the predominant vegetation. (from 19th c.) 3 Any of several low-growing eucalypts ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mallee \mal"lee\, n. [Native name.] (Bot.) A dwarf Australian eucalypt with a number of thin stems springing from a thickened stock. The most common species are Eucalyptus dumosa and Eucalyptus Gracilis . Scrub or thicket formed by the mallee. [Australia] ...
Usage examples of mallee.
Interspersed amongst them were zamia palms and scattered here and there were a few marri, wandoo and mallee gums.
I remember he had a fight with a little bull-calf, about a week old, that came in with a wild heifer, and Aileen made as much of his pluck as if it had been a mallee scrubber.
There are tracks through the endless mallee scrub, only known to the tribes in the neighbourhood, and a few half-castes like Warrigal, that have been stock-riding about them.
They tried not to think about the pain as they climbed into their cosy shelter that night amongst the mallee gums, acacia shrubs and York gums, and quietly listened to the sounds of the bush.
It was so beautiful at times it took your breath away - saltbush, bluebush, a whole world of native shrubs and grasses, all tough enough to exist in the harsh arid heat of this outback country, and the mallee and the ghost gums shimmering their leaves in the wind, shading the ground from the sun.
Golden Soak was at the foot of these two, in rough hillocked country with the stony beds of dry watercourses and nothing much growing there but mallee and spinifex.
I found it coming along both sides about a mile off, blazing twenty feet high, and the draught of it carrying every leaf off the mallee as fast as the flames touched them.
He had ambitions, had this mallee river-bred man, that were not bounded by the mallee-rim on the south side of the Murray, or by the box and gums on the north bank.
Eucalyptus dumosus, vulgarly called Mallee, and exceedingly stunted specimens of that, will grow anything, I will tell him he knows nothing.
Banksias, melaleuca, leptospermum make a thick bush, and eucalypt-like mallee, with their twisted stems and tangled branches, shut out the glare of the sun.
Had he kept to his original intention he would have speedily wandered into the Mallee, and would have run a good chance of dying of starvation in that thinly-populated district.
On summers in her girlhood her family had returned to a small town of one thousand in The Mallee region of north Victoria.
They tried not to think about the pain as they climbed into their cosy shelter that night amongst the mallee gums, acacia shrubs and York gums, and quietly listened to the sounds of the bush.
Banksias, melaleuca, leptospermum make a thick bush, and eucalypt-like mallee, with their twisted stems and tangled branches, shut out the glare of the sun.