| 释义 |
pindan Austral.|ˈpɪndæn|
[Aboriginal.]
The type of vegetation characteristic of arid areas of Western Australia; hence, the region itself. Also attrib.
1934T. Wood Cobbers iv. 46 His black trackers were making boomerangs... Pindam [sic] gum: hard red wood, shaped from a knee in the timber. 1937W. Hatfield I find Australia xxiv. 315 Pindan is not really the name of the type of tree, but merely the native name for ‘dry country’, though general usage adopts the word as a description of the thin growth of whipstick saplings of the bloodwood and box type of eucalypt. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. xiii. 224 Pindan is the blacks' name for the desert country inland from Broome, W.A., so the whites call the Kimberley natives pindan blacks. To live on the pindan is to wander aimlessly in the Westralian outback. 1955J. Cleary Justin Bayard xi. 153 They would be out in the pindan watching the homestead. 1959Observer 17 May 8/3 From the pindan scrub..these ancient monuments [sc. mountains] rise. 1978O. White Silent Reach ii. 22 Half a million acres of pindan country..carried two thousand head of merino sheep in a good season. |