myall
any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula(weeping myall ), having gray foliage and drooping branches.
Origin of myall
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How to use myall in a sentence
I can ride anything—anything that ever was lapped in horsehide—swim like a musk-duck, and track like a myall blackfellow.
Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf BoldrewoodI don't know that it greatly mattered if that myall's spear had gone through me, as it did through poor Williamson.
The Crooked Stick | Rolf BoldrewoodAs if you wouldn't have smelt a myall long before I could even see him!
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories | Louis BeckeAt 6.43 made one mile south to a clump of trees resembling myall, which I have seen before to the west of Rockhampton.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria | William LandsboroughTowards the river the country is wooded with a kind of myall, but not the drooping acacia.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria | William Landsborough
British Dictionary definitions for myall
/ (ˈmaɪəl) /
any of several Australian acacias, esp Acacia pendula, having hard scented wood used for fences
a native Australian living independently of society
Origin of myall
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