Definitions for mallee

mallee mal·lee

Spelling: [mal-ee]
IPA: /ˈmæl i/

Mallee is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in mallee (aeellm).

Definitions for mallee

noun

  1. any of various dwarf Australian eucalyptuses, as Eucalyptus dumosa and E. oleosa, that sometimes form large tracts of brushwood.
  2. the brushwood itself.

Origin of mallee

1840-50; Wergaia (Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Wimmera area, Victoria) mali

Examples for mallee

It was fairly common when I taught in a mallee school, near where Hopetoun now is.

The mallee is a species of eucalyptus growing 12 to 14 ft. high.

The next bird is one of our well-known cage pets—the beautiful Ringneck—the mallee Parrot.

I met it frequently in the mallee and in the Maryborough and Ararat districts.

The mallee scrub appears like a forest of dried osier, growing so close that it is not always easy to ride through it.

Nothing could add to the sterility and the monotony of these mallee scrubs.

“mallee” scrub occupies large tracts of South Australia and Victoria, covering probably an extent of 16,000 sq. m.

The setting sun made a lane of light through the pines and mallee.

To-day I noticed a tree in the mallee very like a Currajong tree.

I'm not coming back till I find my little 'un that's bushed in this mallee.'

Word Value for mallee
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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