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MALLEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mallee mean? 

MALLEE (noun)
  The noun MALLEE has 1 sense:

1. any of several low-growing Australian eucalyptsplay

  Familiarity information: MALLEE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MALLEE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mallee" is a kind of...):

eucalypt; eucalyptus; eucalyptus tree (a tree of the genus Eucalyptus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mallee"):

congoo mallee; Eucalyptus dumosa; white mallee (small shrubby mallee)

black gum; black mallee; black sally; Eucalytus stellulata (a small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt; yields a red eucalyptus kino gum)


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