Definition of Rubus australis

1. Noun. Stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth.

Exact synonyms: Bush Lawyer, Lawyer Bush, Lawyerbush, Rubus Cissoides
Generic synonyms: Bramble Bush

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubus Australis

Rubiales
Rubicon
Rubik's Revenge
Rubik's Revenges
Rubik's cube
Rubik's cubes
Rubik's cubist
Rubik's cubists
Rubin
Rubin test
Rubinstein
Rubix cube
Rubner
Rubner's laws of growth
Rubner's test
Rubus australis (current term)
Rubus caesius
Rubus canadensis
Rubus chamaemorus
Rubus cissoides
Rubus cuneifolius
Rubus flagellaris
Rubus fruticosus
Rubus hispidus
Rubus idaeus
Rubus idaeus strigosus
Rubus loganobaccus
Rubus occidentalis
Rubus odoratus
Rubus parviflorus

Literary usage of Rubus australis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Rubus australis. The first example to be quoted is of a plant whose leaf-stalk serves as an ... It is Rubus australis. This plant occurs in different forms, ..."

2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"In New Zealand, the name is used in this sense for the Rubus australis, ... F. Hochstetter, 'New Zealand,' P- 135 : " Rubus australis, the thorny strings ..."

3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"In New Zealand, the name is used in this sense for the Rubus australis, ... F. Hochstetter, 'New Zealand,' P- 135 : " Rubus australis, the thorny strings ..."

4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1869)
"... in flower, WLL In the climbing form on Rubus australis, the stem is slender, twining, finely puberulent, the hairs being yellowish and very fine, ..."

5. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1892)
"... nest," composed of a mass of leaves and grass, is often seen in a bunch of lawyer (a thorny creeper, Rubus australis) and in other dense-foliaged bush. ..."

6. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"... partly root- climbers (species of Metrosideros), partly scramblers (Rubus australis). Characteristic of this liane-flora are Myrtaceae that never climb ..."

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