mallee
Americannoun
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any of various dwarf Australian eucalyptuses, as Eucalyptus dumosa and E. oleosa, that sometimes form large tracts of brushwood.
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the brushwood itself.
noun
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any of several low shrubby eucalyptus trees that flourish in desert regions of Australia
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informal another name for the bush 1
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See mallee root
Etymology
Origin of mallee
First recorded in 1840–50; from Wergaia (an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Wimmera area, Victoria) mali
Example Sentences
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"I discovered the species while surveying a rare plant in the Goldfields and noticed this bee visiting both the endangered wildflower and a nearby mallee tree," Dr. Prendergast said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2025
She was at the house she built, surrounded by mallee trees and filled with prints of her own wildlife photographs: grizzly bears from a trip to Alaska, a small chameleon on an electric-green leaf.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
The last seven miles was sandy soil, with spinifex and scrub, which was mostly young cork-tree, and the broad-leafed mallee.
From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall
At twenty miles crossed the Douglas, running north through sand hills in a broad valley divided into numerous courses, with dwarf gum-trees, mallee, tea-tree, and numerous other bushes; the bed sandy, and no water.
From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall
The face was fierce enough, and it poured a steady fire upon the girl from black eyes blazing in the double shade of a felt wideawake and the overhanging mallee.
From The Shadow of a Man by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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