mulga
Americannoun
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an Australian shrub or small tree, Acacia aneura, forming dense growths in some areas and having foliage used as forage for livestock.
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an object, as an Aboriginal shield or club, made from the wood of this tree.
noun
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any of various Australian acacia shrubs, esp Acacia aneura, which grows in the central desert regions and has leaflike leafstalks
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scrub comprised of a dense growth of acacia
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the outback; bush
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mulga
First recorded in 1830–40; from Yuwaalaraay (an Australian Aboriginal language spoken near Lightning Ridge, northern New South Wales) malga
Example Sentences
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Mr Peters had just finished urinating when the mulga snake struck his ankle.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2016
The venom of the mulga snake is not as toxic as in some other Australian snake species, but is produced in very large quantities.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2016
Growing up, Namatjira made sketches of scenes around him and later made images for mulga wood plaques.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2013
We also saw the occasional camel, either moving through the mulga trees, its guttural bellows audible a mile away, or lying dead, limbs akimbo, where it had been hit by a car.
From Washington Post
It was wooded with broad-leaved box and mulga scrub.
From Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills by Landsborough, William
It was some weeks after he had started out from Tumurti with the old horse that Boss Stobart had found him perishing in a clump of mulgas.
From In the Musgrave Ranges by Sayce, Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey)
Not a leaf moved on any of the scraggy mulgas standing near.
From In the Musgrave Ranges by Sayce, Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey)
It passed over the mulgas, making them sigh and moan, and then was gone again, leaving the same breathless stillness.
From In the Musgrave Ranges by Sayce, Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey)
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