Definition of Mundulla yellows in English:
Mundulla yellows
plural nounmʌnˌdʌlə ˈjɛləʊz
treated as singular A disease of eucalyptus and other native Australian plants, causing a progressive and destructive yellowing of leaves.
Mundulla yellows poses the biggest threat to woodland birds this country has ever seen
Example sentencesExamples
- There are claims today of a breakthrough in diagnosing the tree disease, Mundulla Yellows.
- The university has begun a Supreme Court action against them for ruining a research plot established to find a cure for the fatal Mundulla Yellows disease.
- Mundulla Yellows is a mysterious disease that is fatal to eucalypts and other native plants and which has spread from the state's upper southeast to all Australian states since the 1970s.
- One researcher has said Mundulla Yellows places the Australian flora under threat.
- A contractor mistakenly felled 141 experimental trees, destroying years of research into a cure for the troublesome Mundulla Yellows disease.
Origin
1990s: from Mundulla, the South Australian district where it was first noticed.