brigalow
/ (ˈbrɪɡələʊ) /
noun
Australian
any of various acacia trees
(as modifier): brigalow country
Origin of brigalow
1C19: from a native Australian language
Words Nearby brigalow
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How to use brigalow in a sentence
They rode several miles to a little lake and a scrub of brigalow, and, dismounting, soon had exciting sport.
Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete | Gilbert ParkerHe had found Billy nursing Eversofar in the shade of a stunted brigalow, while Bingong was away hunting for water.
Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete | Gilbert ParkerThe brigalow scrub was about half a mile in length, and stood between the swamp and the high river bank.
In The Far North | Louis BeckeHere grow brigalow and mulga, gaunt and weird as the dragon-tree of the Soudan.
Australian Pictures | Howard WilloughbyIt was still, however, enveloped in a narrow belt of brigalow.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia | Thomas Mitchell
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