See boobialla on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Said to be from a southeastern Tasmanian language term bubiala.", "forms": [ { "form": "boobiallas", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "boobialla (plural boobiallas)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Australian English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Undetermined language links", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "lifeform", "langcode": "en", "name": "Figwort family plants", "orig": "en:Figwort family plants", "parents": [ "Lamiales order plants", "Plants", "Shrubs", "Trees", "Lifeforms", "All topics", "Life", "Fundamental", "Nature" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2001, Inga Clendinnen, Tiger's Eye: A Memoir, page 63:", "text": "I grabbed them and splashed across the river and up the far bank, backed deep into a boobialla bush and pulled them in after me.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 9", "text": "One hundred and ninety-five years later, I look out over a strip of emerald boobyallas onto a deserted nine-mile beach." }, { "ref": "2007, Graeme Kinross-Smith, Long Afternoon of the World, page 184:", "text": "And remember dead boobialla branches have one aim when you are gathering them, chopping them, lopping them, splitting them, breaking them under your boot – and that aimm is to gouge out your eye, to lance your hands, to trip you up, to deflect the axe into your boot, to kill you if possible.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Ray Kirkwood, Variant Breed, page 191:", "text": "A vast forest of Boobialla trees, growing completely out of control, spread widely right to the very foreshore of the station.[…]At a later date, I would be responsible for clearing this boobialla with my trusty chainsaw.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Any of various plants of coastal or sandy regions, especially a small tree Acacia longifolia (subsp. sophorae), and various flowering plants in the genus Myoporum in the figwort family." ], "id": "en-boobialla-en-noun-XEES5Zm4", "links": [ [ "flowering plant", "flowering plant" ], [ "genus", "genus" ], [ "Myoporum", "Myoporum#Translingual" ], [ "figwort", "figwort" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Australia) Any of various plants of coastal or sandy regions, especially a small tree Acacia longifolia (subsp. sophorae), and various flowering plants in the genus Myoporum in the figwort family." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "boobyalla" } ], "tags": [ "Australia" ] } ], "word": "boobialla" }
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