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belah|ˈbiːlə|
Also belar, † beela, beal.
[Aboriginal name.]
The Australian name for various trees, chiefly of the genus Casuarina; also the wood of these trees.
1862H. C. Kendall Poems, Kooroora 14 A voice in the beela grows wild in its wail. 1868J. A. B. Meta 19 Blazing fire of beal. 1873Ranken Dom. Australia vi. 110 These scrubs..sometimes crown the watersheds as ‘belar’. 1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xix. 188 Mulga trees, and belar. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Sept. 28/2 The casuarinas—she-oak, silky oak, belar, forest oak and creek or river oak—are all valuable for foilage, timber and bark. 1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling xiv. 118 Plenty of timber: wilga, box, cypress, pine, and belah. 1944F. D. Davison in Coast to Coast 1943 228 The line of wallaby snares in the belah scrub at the back of his selection. |