melaleuca

See also: Melaleuca

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From genus name, translingual Melaleuca.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌmɛləˈluːkə/

Noun

melaleuca (plural melaleucas)

  1. (botany) Any member of the genus Melaleuca of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family.
    • 1973, Patsy Adam Smith, The Barcoo Salute, Adelaide: Rigby, page 29:
      From November to February, the usually sombre olive green bush is a palette of pink heath, cream and mauve melaleuca, gold hibbertias, snug on the ground, pale blue iris, the swashbuckling scarlet and orange blandfordia lily, and Hewardia tasmanica, the mountain purple iris.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 294:
      [H]e passed on, upsetting nothing, completely unnoticed by the peewee birds and crows resting in the silent melaleuca trees and paperbark woodland […]

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