| 单词 |
coolabah |
| 释义 |
coolabah, coolibah Austral.|ˈkuːləbɑː, -lɪb-| Also coolibar, coolybah, k-. [Native name.] Any of several Australian gum-trees, esp. Eucalyptus microtheca.
1887Colonial & Indian Exhib., Rep. Col. Sect. 428 Jinbul, or Coolibar, is a small tree, yielding wood of a reddish colour, close in texture, very hard, and heavy. 1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Pl. Australia 25 Eucalyptus microtheca, (‘Bastard Box’ or ‘Coolibah’). Ibid. 495 ‘Coolybah’ or ‘Coolibar’. 1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xv. 143, I found the whole place covered with coolabah. a1917A. B. Paterson Waltzing Matilda, Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree. 1930A. Groom Merry Christmas v. 37 They halted beneath a great spreading coolabah tree. 1955J. Cleary Justin Bayard 112 The graves beneath the coolibah tree at the bottom of the mountain. |

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