melaleuca

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Etymology

From genus name Melaleuca.

Pronunciation

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Noun

melaleuca (plural melaleucas)

  1. (botany) Any member of the genus Melaleuca of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 294:
      [H]e passed on, upsetting nothing, completely unnoticed by the peewee birds and crows resting in the silent melaleuca trees and paperbark woodland […]

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