myall

[ mahy-awl ]

noun

1. any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula weeping myall, having gray foliage and drooping branches.

myall

/ ˈmaɪəl /

noun

1. any of several Australian acacias, esp Acacia pendula, having hard scented wood used for fences
2. a native Australian living independently of society

Word History and Origins

Origin of myall¹

First recorded in 1835–45; apparently to be identified with myall “wild, uncivilized,” from Dharuk miyal “stranger, Aboriginal person from another tribe”

Word History and Origins

Origin of myall¹

C19: from a native Australian name

Example Sentences

I can ride anything—anything that ever was lapped in horsehide—swim like a musk-duck, and track like a Myall blackfellow.

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I don't know that it greatly mattered if that Myall's spear had gone through me, as it did through poor Williamson.

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As if you wouldn't have smelt a myall long before I could even see him!

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At 6.43 made one mile south to a clump of trees resembling myall, which I have seen before to the west of Rockhampton.

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Towards the river the country is wooded with a kind of myall, but not the drooping acacia.

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