mulga

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Flies were troublesome, and very busy at our eyes; soon after daylight, and immediately after sunrise, it became quite hot Traversing first the racecourse plain, we then entered some mulga scrub; the mulga is an acacia, the wood extremely hard.

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  1. A long, narrow shield used by the natives of Australia, but usually only in single combat, as a protection against the native club. It is usually made from acacia wood.
  2. Any one of several species of Acacia, especially A. aneura, a shrub or small tree found all over Australia, but more commonly in the arid desert region of the interior. Its dark-brown wood is very hard, and is used by the aboriginals for boomerangs, spear-sticks, and shields, while its leaves are eaten by stock and in times of drought often form their only food.

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  • Through a screen of mulga, he glimpsed the sea where he used to roam on the sandy beach below the bluffs She nodded. —  AHMM,June2006
  • Over 110,000 hectares of mulga was cleared for fodder harvesting, WWF said. —  Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • For the first six days of their march they passed through scrubs of oak, mulga, and sandalwood; then they entered upon vast plains, which were well-grassed, and had saltbush and other edible shrubs growing on them. —  The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
  • This kopi is peculiar soil to walk over; on the surface there is a hard crust--once through this, one sinks nearly to the knee; the camels of course, from their weight, go much lower On the night of the 23rd, we gave Tommy two gallons of water--not much of a drink, but enough to make him tackle the mulga, and spinifex-tops, the only available feed; none but West Australian brumbies could live on such fare, and they will eat anything, like donkeys or goats. —  Spinifex and Sand
  • In the open mulga, kangaroos' tracks were numerous, and in the hills we saw several small red kangaroos, dingoes, and emus. —  Spinifex and Sand
 

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