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Definition of Melaleucas
1. melaleuca [n] - See also: melaleuca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melaleucas
Literary usage of Melaleucas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and edited by Charles Mason Hovey (1839)
"... myrtles, melaleucas and many other plants. ... Hibiscus of sorts, Sago palm,
cactuses, cyclamens, melaleucas, &c. ..."
2. Sketch of the Forestry of West Africa with Particular Reference to Its by Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney (1887)
"They and melaleucas might with proper care be most advantageously cultivated,
... On the more general introduction and growth of Eucalypts and melaleucas in ..."
3. The Dominion of Australia: An Account of Its Foundations by W. H. L. Ranken (1874)
"... besides many of melaleucas and of other genera, not found in the eastern
province ; while the latter has 100 melaleucas, nearly as many acacias, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... and almost indestructible when used as piles for piers or wharves. Smaller species
of eucalyptus form the common " bush. " melaleucas, also of ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1857)
"It is not generally known that the cajeput oil of India is obtained from trees
very similar to the common melaleucas, and that even from the leaves of the ..."
6. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1863)
"... which, as well as nine other kinds from the gum-trees, and five from melaleucas
or tea-trees, gave a superior light, and very white in comparison. ..."
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