brigalown.
/ˈbrɪɡələʊ/, U.S. /ˈbrɪɡəˌloʊ/, Australian English /ˈbrɪɡəloʊ/ Austral.
Any one of several species of acacia, esp. A. harpophylla. Also attributive.
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brigalow1847
mulga1848
talha1857
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun]
acacia1542
babul1696
marblewood1753
black wattle1802
popinac1809
wattlec1810
wattle-treec1810
giraffe tree1815
haakdoring1822
hookthorn1822
kameeldoorn1822
camel-thorn1824
catechu-tree1829
silver wattle1832
blackthorn1833
thorny acacia1834
boobyalla1835
seyal1844
mulga1848
thorn-wood1850
hackthorn1857
mimosa1857
poison tree1857
Port Jackson1857
talha1857
golden wattle1859
whitethorn acacia1860
buffalo thorn1866
nelia1867
siris1874
cassie1876
couba1878
needlebush1884
sallow wattle1884
sally1884
giddea1885
prickly Moses1887
yarran1888
opopanax tree1889
wait-a-while1889
fever tree1893
giraffe acacia1896
stay-a-while1898
brigalow1901
wirra1904
cootamundra1909
Sydney golden wattle1909
witchetty bush1911
rooikrans1917
jam-tree1934
whistling thorn1949
blackthorn1966
1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. i. 4 The Bricklow Acacia, which seems to be identical with the Rose-wood Acacia of Moreton Bay.
1862 H. Kendall Poems & Songs 79 Good-bye to the Barwan and brigalow scrubs.
1885 R. C. Praed Head Station xvii We are not fit for anything but store-cattle, we are all blady grass and brigalow scrub.
1901 F. Campbell Love 263 Long shafts of silvery moonlight creep in between the waving branches of blue gum and brigalow.
1935 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 June 46/4 Some clumpy brigalow country.
1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad i. 4 I am cattle-banging in western Queensland, the scent of the brigalow and mulga in my nostrils.
1957 P. White Voss viii. 202 After the midday halt, which was spent in the shade of some brigalow scrub.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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