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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

mallee

Pronunciation / Transliteration: mali

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Mallee/ˈmæli/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #45000 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O mallee é um tipo de eucalipto arbustivo encontrado na Austrália."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Any of various multi-stemmed species of eucalyptus shrubs or small trees native to Australia.

    "The resilient mallee trees survived the severe drought in the Australian outback."
  2. 2

    A dense scrubland or region characterized by these stunted eucalyptus plants.

    "They traveled across the vast dusty plains and into the thick mallee."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Wemba-Wemba and other Aboriginal Australian languages, specifically referring to the eucalyptus dumosa and similar multi-stemmed shrubby eucalyptus trees. Adopted into Australian English in the 19th century to describe both the specific plant species and the arid or semi-arid scrublands dominated by them.

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