Definitions for Melaleuca

Melaleuca mel·a·leu·ca

Spelling: [mel-uh-loo-kuh]
IPA: /ˌmɛl əˈlu kə/

Melaleuca is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in Melaleuca (aaceellmu).

Definitions for Melaleuca

noun

  1. any of various chiefly Australian shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Melaleuca, of the myrtle family, including the cajeput and several species of bottlebrush.

Origin of Melaleuca

New Latin (Linnaeus), irregular coinage from Greek mélā(s) black + leukḗ, feminine of leukós white; so called from its black trunk and white branches

Examples for Melaleuca

The Casuarina, which likes a light sandy soil, disappeared at the same time, and was succeeded by the narrow-leaved melaleuca.

Locality: Port Essington, on trunks of melaleuca trees (Macgillivray).

The soil was excellent, and the brushes behind us abounded with a new species of melaleuca.

A great quantity of tea-tree—melaleuca—grew in the creek bed.

The trees in this creek are melaleuca and gum, with some others.

Clumps of melaleuca occurred at intervals, and at a distance appeared like low hills.

The country generally was more open, with grassy box-flats; melaleuca scrubs less frequent.

The principal channel of the creek was lined with a species of melaleuca, with slightly foliacious bark.

From the Malay words kayu, wood; and putih, oil; the useful oil obtained from the melaleuca leucadendron.

Oil of cajeput, is prepared in the Moluccas, by distilling the dry leaves of the melaleuca leucadendron.

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