Mulga

Quick meaning: Mulga is a noun meaning (Australia) Any of a number of small acacia trees, especially Acacia aneura, forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of Australia.

Meaning

(Australia) Any of a number of small acacia trees, especially Acacia aneura, forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of Australia.

More Meanings

1. (Australia, preceded by definite article) Any region where mulga is the predominant vegetation.
2. (Australia, colloquial, in combination) The outback.
3. Something made from the wood of a mulga tree.
4. Ellipsis of mulga wire (“a message or story transmitted through an informal gossip network, especially one containing false information”).

Example Sentences

I'd forgotten for a moment you are not all mulga-bred […]

Ford (1969) points out that it is distributed from southern Northern Territory and northern South Australia west through mulga country of the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts to the coast of Western Australia.

The return of mulgas, native grasses and other shrubs was finally giving wildlife researchers some hope that numerous animals on the endangered species list might yet be saved if their ecosystems could be restored.

There are several different types of mulga, and Anangu know the different food which comes from them. For example, insects make a thing like a small apple on the pakuta (horse mulga). This one is good to eat but there is another one on a different sort of mulga which is not edible.

Word Forms

• mulgas

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scrub, mallee, myall, gidgee, murnong, brigalow.

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