boree

British  

/ ˈbɔːriː /

noun

1. another name for myall

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Etymology

Origin of boree

from a native Australian language

Example Sentences

He took the younger man's arm and dragged him on, skirting slowly round the "dead finish" till at length, late in the afternoon, it gave place to boree.

From The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas by Gaunt, Mary

In the interior, the timber is as a rule dwarfed, hollow, and crooked; the principal timbers being the acacia family, such as the gidya, myall, brigalow, boree, etc.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward

Is not the land of the banana, the palm and the cedar, entitled to recognition, as well as the land of the gidyea, the boree, and the bottle-tree?

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Called boree by aboriginals, and often boree, or silver-leaf boree, by the colonists of Western New South Wales.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis