marri

/ ˈmærɪ /

noun

1. a species of eucalyptus, Eucalyptus calophylla, of Western Australia, widely cultivated for its coloured flowers

Word History and Origins

Origin of marri¹

C19: from a native Australian language

Example Sentences

Jacobs said he thinks of C. marri as the dinosaur equivalent of gazelles, because they were fast-moving and wary of attacks.

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Convolosaurus marri is an early relative of hadrosaurs, the common duckbill dinosaurs that emerged about 20 million years later.

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The dinosaurs, which Andrzejewski and her colleagues named Convolosaurus marri, make up the largest trove of dinosaur fossils ever discovered in Texas.

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