Definition of "mallee" [mal•lee]

• Any of several west Australian evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Eucalyptus. (noun)
• A thicket or growth of these plants. (noun)

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• "The mallee is the basis of the one industry that continues here: it is coppiced every few years to make eucalyptus oil."
• "After crossing the Murray the train passes through what is known as "the desert" -- a stretch of country covered with mallee scrub (the mallee is a kind of small gum-tree); but nowadays they are finding out that this mallee scrub is not hopeless country at all."
• "There is one fowl here called the mallee bird, about the size of the pheasant, and resembling him in many ways."