"nature strip" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1994, Southerly: A Review of Australian Literature",
          "text": "Just look at these people, camping out there on her nature strip. All on social welfare, no jobs, nothing better to do with their time than come here and harass her. No wonder the stock market was crashing and Arthur was looking worried ...",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Australian High Court, The Australian Law Journal Reports, volume 78, page 572",
          "text": "Between the service road and the highway was a densely foliaged nature strip. There was a path across the nature strip that was frequently used by pedestrians to cross the service road.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Maurilia Meehan, The Bad Seed, unnumbered page",
          "text": "In their lime-green flat she had no garden, which was why she had taken over the nature strip.[…]Neighbours mowed their green-jube nature strips bordering Agatha′s garden and did not report her to the local council.",
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          "text": "2009, Mary Horsfall, Creating Your Eco-Friendly Garden, CSIRO Publishing, page 107,\nThis is a town with a culture of nature strip gardens. Along our road there are no footpaths, but there are wide nature strips on which many residents have planted gardens of one sort or another."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker: A Novel, Penguin, page 42",
          "text": "Mrs Harridene accuses the said three schoolchildren of throwing bunches of seedpods onto her corrugated iron roof, having stolen the bunches of seedpods from the jacaranda tree located on her nature strip.",
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        "An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying between the roadway proper and the footpath, if there is one; a tree lawn."
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        "(Australia, regional) An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying between the roadway proper and the footpath, if there is one; a tree lawn."
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        "Road verge"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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          "ref": "1994, Southerly: A Review of Australian Literature",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Australian High Court, The Australian Law Journal Reports, volume 78, page 572",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Maurilia Meehan, The Bad Seed, unnumbered page",
          "text": "In their lime-green flat she had no garden, which was why she had taken over the nature strip.[…]Neighbours mowed their green-jube nature strips bordering Agatha′s garden and did not report her to the local council.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "2009, Mary Horsfall, Creating Your Eco-Friendly Garden, CSIRO Publishing, page 107,\nThis is a town with a culture of nature strip gardens. Along our road there are no footpaths, but there are wide nature strips on which many residents have planted gardens of one sort or another."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker: A Novel, Penguin, page 42",
          "text": "Mrs Harridene accuses the said three schoolchildren of throwing bunches of seedpods onto her corrugated iron roof, having stolen the bunches of seedpods from the jacaranda tree located on her nature strip.",
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