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wren
n. This common English bird-name isassigned in Australia to birds of several genera, viz. – – Bande...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub
I. n. country overgrown with thick bushes.Henry Kingsley's explanation (1859), that the word means...
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bush-wren
n. See wren. 1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol. i. p. 108: [A full description.] ...
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emu-wren
n. a bird-name. See malurus. 1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii. pl. 31: « Stipituras...
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mallee-scrub
n. the «scrub,» or thicket,formed by the Mallee (q.v.). 1893. A. R. Wallace, `Australasia,' vol. i...
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mulga-scrub
n. thickets of Mulga-trees. 1864. J. McDouall Stuart, `Explorations in Australia,'p. 190: «For th...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub-bird
n. name given to two Australianbirds, of the genus Atrichia. (Grk. 'atrichos= without hair.) They ar...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub-cattle
n. escaped cattle that run wild in the scrub, used as a collective plural of Scrubber (q.v.). 1860...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub-crab
n. a Queensland fruit. The largedark purple fruit, two inches in diameter, of Sideroxylonaustrale, ...
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scrub-dangler
n. a wild bullock. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xvi. p. 193: «He is one of thos...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub-rider
n. a man who rides through the scrub in search of Scrub-cattle (q.v.). 1881. A. C. Giant, `Bush Li...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub-robin
n. the modern name for any birdof the genus Drymodes. 1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. i...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub-tree
n. any tree that grows in the scrub. 1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 219: «Almost ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub-turkey
n. an Australian bird, Leipoaocellata, Gould; aboriginal name, the Lowan (q.v.).See Turkey. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris