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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]
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 characteristic of such scrubland, especially (taxlink Eucalyptus dumosa species noshow=1), (taxlink Eucalyptus oleosa species noshow=1), and (taxlink Eucalyptus socialis species noshow=1). (from 19th c.) 4 (context botany English) The growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber, shared by species of related genera.
WordNet
n. any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts
Wikipedia
Mallee may refer to:
- Mallee (habit), the habit of woody plants that grow with multiple stems from underground lignotubers
The Mallee is an illdefined district, sometimes incorrectly referred to as an economic region, of the Australian state of Victoria. The district is located entirely within the Loddon Mallee region; and covers the most northwesterly district in the state bounded by the South Australian and New South Wales borders, inclusive of the Murray River.
Definitions of the district vary, however all are based on the Victorian distribution of mallee eucalypts. These trees dominate the surviving vegetation through most of Mallee, except for swamps and areas along waterways, and the very rare stands of intact Casuarina.
At the 2011 census, the four local government areas (LGAs) that are thought to comprise the illdefined district had a combined population of . The area of these same four LGAs is .
Mallee, also known as Roe Botanical District, is a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia. Located between the Esperance Plains, Avon Wheatbelt and Coolgardie regions, it has a low, gently undulating topography, a semi-arid mediterranean climate, and extensive Eucalyptus mallee vegetation. About half of the region has been cleared for intensive agriculture. Recognised as a region under the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA), it was first defined by John Stanley Beard in 1980.
Mallees are the dominant vegetation throughout semi-arid areas of Australia with reliable winter rainfall. Within this area, they form extensive woodlands and shrublands covering over . Thus mallee woodlands and shrublands are considered one of Australia's Major Vegetation Groups.
Widespread mallee species include:
- E. dumosa (white mallee)
- E. socialis (red mallee)
- E. gracilis (yorrell)
- E. oleosa (red mallee)
- E. incrassata (ridge-fruited mallee)
- E. diversifolia (soap mallee)
The malleefowl is a bird characteristic of this habitat.
An example of a mallee in a high-rainfall area is the rare yellow-top mallee ash, Eucalyptus luehmanniana.
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.