Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of leguminous shrubs peculiar to western Australia, some of which are occasionally cultivated in greenhouses.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods

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Examples

  • Already the wheels of the wagon were making deep ruts on the wide plains, covered with blackish alluvium, as it passed on between tufts of luxuriant grass and fresh fields of gastrolobium.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • “They are there!” cried John Mangles, slipping between the tall branches of gastrolobium, which grew high enough to hide a whole flock.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • The gastrolobium grandiflorum covered the ground, with its bushes covered with gay flowers.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • The horses and bullocks dropped dead one by one, poisoned by the gastrolobium.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • The horses and bullocks dropped dead one by one, poisoned by the gastrolobium.

    In Search of the Castaways 1873

  • The gastrolobium grandiflorum covered the ground, with its bushes covered with gay flowers.

    In Search of the Castaways 1873

  • "They are there!" cried John Mangles, slipping between the tall branches of gastrolobium, which grew high enough to hide a whole flock.

    In Search of the Castaways 1873

  • Already the wheels of the wagon were making deep ruts on the wide plains, covered with blackish alluvium, as it passed on between tufts of luxuriant grass and fresh fields of gastrolobium.

    In Search of the Castaways 1873

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