brigalow
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of brigalow
C19: from a native Australian language
Example Sentences
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The scrub we met with on the rising ground, consisted of the verdant bushes in rosewood scrubs, and we next found brigalow all dead, with a rich crop of grass growing amongst the dead stems.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas
Through the brigalow and mulga scrubs, dense and forbidding, over mountain ranges, stony and steep, across flooded rivers, and over or around all obstacles, the pioneers still moved on and took up and occupied runs.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward
It contained abundance of transparent water, a continuous channel, rocky bed, and, instead of brigalow, there grew on its banks a thick crop of strong grass, and much verdure.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas
The river had a singular tendency to spread into little channels within a belt of brigalow scrub.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas
It was brigalow, and you know what that is.
From Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)
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