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Definition of Coolibar
1. coolabah [n -S] - See also: coolabah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coolibar
Literary usage of Coolibar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Australian Life by Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1892)
"There was a coolibar tree just by." The girl, wandering away into vague music or
... The coolibar is a crooked and stunted tree, always in watercourses and ..."
2. Natives of Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas (1906)
"On the ankles are tied coolibar leaves which have been singed over the fire.
The leader carries a forked stick tipped with white feathers. ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1894)
"or coolibar (Eucalyptus bicolor, A. Cunn.), with which it was associated ; it
grew only on country subject to inundation and never on sand hills or on stony ..."
4. The Queensland Law Journal Reports by W. H. Osborne (1893)
"... crossing the Buckley River at a point about twenty-four chains above a coolibar
tree marked broad arrow over К over CXI in triangle, in all ten miles, ..."
5. Reports on the Colonial Sections of the Exhibition by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1887)
"... or coolibar, is a small tree, yielding wood of a reddish colour, close in
texture, very hard, and heavy. Jimmy Low is usually a large tree, ..."
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