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单词 mallee
释义 I. mallee|ˈmæliː|
Also malle.
[Native Australian.]
Any one of several scrubby species of eucalyptus which flourish in the desert parts of South Australia and Victoria; esp. Eucalyptus dumosa and E. oleosa. Also, the ‘scrub’ or thicket formed by these trees. mallee bird, fowl, hen, an Australian mound-bird, Leipoa ocellata; mallee root slang (see quot. 1941).
1848W. Westgarth Austral. Felix 73 Laap, a sweet exudation from the leaf of the mallee (Eucalyptus dumosa).1857Howitt Tallangetta xii. II. 2 This Mallee scrub..consists of a dense wood of a dwarf species of gum-tree.1898‘R. Boldrewood’ Rom. Canvass Town 37 Far off, amidst the sea-like expanse of the mallee..rise sombre, sharply-defined peaks and ranges.1911E. M. Clowes On Wallaby ix. 249 On the Wimmera Plains is massed the dwarf eucalyptus known as the Mallee Scrub, the roots of which make such ideal firewood.1936I. L. Idriess Cattle King ii. 10 They passed through the mallee belt, then out on to plain country.1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 45 Mallee root, a prostitute.1944A. Russell Bush Ways xxii. 104, I think of the mallee scrubs and red gum fringes of the lower Murray River.1958E. O. Schlunke Village Hampden 127 ‘They're going to lynch you, Regerson,’ Harry told him, grinning. ‘You'd better take to the mallee before they come for you.’1963Times 12 Mar. p. x/7 The mallee fowl is one of the megapodiidae or mound-building birds of the dry interior.1966G. Durrell Two in Bush v. 166 Mallee scrub consists of a small species of eucalyptus between six and twenty feet high, and in places the trees grow very close together, their branches entwining and forming a continuous canopy.1973Sun-Herald (Sydney) 26 Aug. 85/2 (caption) A mallee fowl on its mound.
II. mallee
var. mali.
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