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Definition of Mulga
1. Noun. (Australia) Any of a number of small acacia trees, especially ''Acacia aneura'', forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of Australia. ¹
2. Noun. (Australia colloquial in combination) The outback. ¹
3. Noun. Something made from the wood of a mulga tree. ¹
4. Noun. A mulga wire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mulga
1. an acacia tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mulga
Literary usage of Mulga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"349: " mulga is the name of a long narrow shield of wood, ... These latter galls
are called ' mulga-apples,' and are said to be very welcome to the thirsty ..."
2. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1906)
"mulga QUEEN No. 1 SOUTH, GML 1522.— The main workings on this property are ...
Here (mulga Queen No. 1 South) the reef is somewhat more irregular and ..."
3. Forestry Handbook by R. Dalrymple Hay, Joseph Henry Maiden (1917)
"Acacia aneura, PvM THE mulga. Botanical Name.—Aneura, from two Greek words—a,
not, and neuron, a nerve—in allusion to the veins or nerves of the leaves ..."
4. Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2 by David Lindsay, Thomas Elder, L. A. Wells (1893)
"Patches of saltbush, good mulga, and grass, the tableland being immediately on
our left. Six miles from camp we passed a bluff point where the tableland ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1917)
"A short distance to the eastward of the table hill there is a stony salt bush
Hat followed by a belt of mulga about three-quarters of a mile wide. ..."
6. The Mineral Resources of Western Australia by Albert Frederick Calvert (1893)
"... in conclusion, that it runs parallel with the Cue. The same kind of reefs are
found, and in places are very rich. THE mulga mulga OR BIEREN. ..."
7. Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative by Ernest Giles (1889)
"A bluff hill—Quandong trees—The mulga tree—Travel SSE —Mare left behind—Native
peaches—Short of water—Large tree— Timbered ridges—Horses suffer from thirst ..."
8. Wattles and Wattle-barks: Being Hints on the Conservation and Cultivation of by Joseph Henry Maiden (1906)
"The chief ingredient of mulga scrub, so called from the mulga, or long, ...
Following is an interesting note on mulga, from the Sydney Mail in 1890, ..."
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