brigalow
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of brigalow
C19: from a native Australian language
Example Sentences
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In returning, I selected, with Yuranigh's able assistance, a smaller valley, by which I hoped to succeed in conducting the carts next day, so as to avoid the ascent of the brigalow range.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell
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 Thomas Mitchell
The whole day was lost, however, in toiling through a brigalow scrub.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell
That we had just quitted, had a great affection, like its upper tributary, for brigalow scrubs, and spreading into ana-branches.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell
These ridges consisted of red gravel; the scrub contained callitris, casuarina, silver-leaved iron-bark, malga and brigalow, the two latter growing so thickly as to compel me to turn eastward to avoid them.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell
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