melaleuca
nounUS /ˌmɛləˈluːkə/
Etymology Borrowed from Translingual Melaleuca.
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Any member of the genus Melaleuca of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family.
- From November to February, the usually sombre olive green bush is a palette of pink heath, cream and mauve melaleuca, gold hibbertias, snug on the ground, pale blue iris, the swashbuckling scarlet and orange blandfordia lily, and Hewardia tasmanica, the mountain purple iris.1973, Patsy Adam Smith, The Barcoo Salute, Adelaide: Rigby, page 29:
- [H]e passed on, upsetting nothing, completely unnoticed by the peewee birds and crows resting in the silent melaleuca trees and paperbark woodland […]2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 294: