mimosa

• We were in a little grove of mimosa, and the doves were busy above our heads. —  The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900
• Their principal food is the foliage of these trees; and one species of mimosa--the camel-doorn (camel-thorn) of the Dutch hunters--is their especial favourite. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
• There is also the yellow of the mimosa, and the inimitable red of the occasional judas-tree. —  Riviera Towns
• He had gone out with a party to hunt a herd of buffaloes which were grazing on a piece of marshy ground, sprinkled with a few mimosa-trees. —  The Mission; or Scenes in Africa
• The man threw down his gun, and ran towards the marsh; but the beast was so close upon him, that he despaired of escaping by that direction, and turning suddenly round a clump of copsewood, began to climb an old mimosa-tree which stood close to it The buffalo was, however, too quick for him. —  The Mission; or Scenes in Africa

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