Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In western Queensland, a tree, Eucalyptus microtheca, the wood of which is reddish brown, remarkably hard, heavy and elastic, and useful in building. Also called
goborro , and by the colonists bastard, black, or flooded box.
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- noun Any of a number of
eucalyptus trees of central and northern Australia, in particular Eucalyptus microtheca.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The watercourses of the region are lined with low open coolibah (Eucalyptus coolibah) woodlands while swamps contain Muehlenbeckia and Chenopodium shrublands, Eragrostis australasica grasslands, or ephemeral herblands.
Simpson desert 2008
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Interdune areas may also include gidgee (Acacia geoginea) or coolibah woodlands on drainage lines.
Simpson desert 2008
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The low ranges and hills support sparse Acacia shrublands while the drainage lines and associated floodplains support river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis), coolibah (E. coolibah), and yapunyah (E. ochriophoia) woodlands, Mitchell Grass (Astrebla spp.) grasslands or herblands.
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Ephemeral lakes of the Barkly Tableland support communities of bluebush (Chenopodium auricomum) and/or coolibah (E. coolibah) low open woodlands.
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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Lake Woods is one of the most important breeding grounds in inland northern Australia and the coolibah swamps of Lake Tarrabool are the largest in tropical Australia.
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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Common species on alluvium include Eucalyptus camaldulensis, E. tereticornis, E. coolibah, and E. largiflorens.
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Occasional drainage lines possess mixed communities of red river gum (Eucalyptus camuldulensis), coolibah (E. coolabah), and paperbarks (Melaleuca spp.).
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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To the north, near the New South Wales – Queensland boundary, original vegetation was grassy open woodland, with coolibah trees (Eucalpytus microtheca) over a cover of Mitchell grass (Astrebla lappacea).
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Once there was a mayor man who sat beside a bilabong under the shade of the coolibah tree.
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Afterwards he propped the rake against the coolibah tree.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
chained_bear commented on the word coolibah
Also spelled coolabah: a species of gum or eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus microtheca.
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree.
-- A.B. Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda"
February 7, 2007