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mallee

/mal-ee/US // ˈmæl i //UK // (ˈmæliː) //

马列,马利,马勒,马力

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various dwarf Australian eucalyptuses, as Eucalyptus dumosa and E. oleosa, that sometimes form large tracts of brushwood.
    • : the brushwood itself.

Examples

  • The setting sun made a lane of light through the pines and mallee.

  • One tract of the mallee scrub, shared between Victoria and South Australia, covers an area of nearly 9000 square miles.

  • The mallee is just high enough to render it impossible for a man on horseback to look over it.

  • The mallee (Eucalyptus dumosa) is one of the strangest products of a strange country.

  • No surface water is to be obtained in the mallee district; its silence is only disturbed by the melancholy wail of the dingo.

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