Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, the type of the tribe Leptospermeæ of the order Myrtaceæ.
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Examples
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Again, by the leaf litter, you can see that it was indeed found in a moister valley eucalyptus forest with leptospermum.
Fanciful Fungi Jess 2010
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Again, by the leaf litter, you can see that it was indeed found in a moister valley eucalyptus forest with leptospermum.
Archive 2010-04-01 Jess 2010
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A leptospermum and a myrtle sit black and petrified and a prize 10ft melianthus that went to ground last winter hasn't been seen since.
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The mimosa trees predominated, but still the bushes of leptospermum darkened the stream which was deep, rapid, and muddy, its breadth being about 40 yards and the bed consisting of a friable or soft calcareous sandstone.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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"The underwood consists chiefly of a shrub somewhat resembling a myrtle, and which seems to be the _leptospermum scoparium_, mentioned in Dr
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