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prettygoodword) wrote2017-03-21 08:41 am
prettygoodword) wrote2017-03-21 08:41 am
mallee
mallee (MAL-ee) - n., any of various shrubby, multiple-stemmed eucalyptuses of southern Australia; a brushwood of same; (as "the mallee") the bush.
There are a few dozen species of mallee. There are multiple places of mallee. The mallee is more vague. Adopted around 1845 from an aboriginal Australian word, probably Wemba-Wemba (spoken in northwestern Victoria) mali.
---L.
There are a few dozen species of mallee. There are multiple places of mallee. The mallee is more vague. Adopted around 1845 from an aboriginal Australian word, probably Wemba-Wemba (spoken in northwestern Victoria) mali.
---L.