australian : Idioms & Phrases

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aboriginal australian

  • noun the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines
    Australian.
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australian aborigine

  • noun a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
    Aborigine; Aboriginal; Australian Aborigine; Abo.
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australian alps

  • noun a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range
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australian arowana

  • noun a species of large fish found in Australian rivers
    spotted barramundi; saratoga; Scleropages leichardti; spotted bonytongue; Dawson River salmon.
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australian blacksnake

  • noun large semiaquatic snake of Australia; black above with red belly
    Pseudechis porphyriacus.
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australian bonytongue

  • noun a species of large fish found in Australian rivers
    Scleropages jardinii; northern barramundi.
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australian capital

  • noun the capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia
    Canberra; capital of Australia.
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australian chestnut

  • noun Australian tree having pinnate leaves and orange-yellow flowers followed by large woody pods containing 3 or 4 seeds that resemble chestnuts; yields dark strong wood
    Moreton Bay chestnut.
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australian cockroach

  • noun widely distributed in warm countries
    Periplaneta australasiae.
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australian coral snake

  • noun small venomous but harmless snake marked with black-and-white on red
    Rhynchoelaps australis.
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australian crawl

  • noun a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
    front crawl; crawl.
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australian desert

  • noun general name given to all desert areas in Australia
    Australian Desert.
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australian dollar

  • noun the basic unit of money in Australia and Nauru
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australian grass tree

  • noun any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins
    grass tree.
  • noun stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers
    Richea dracophylla.
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australian hare's foot

  • noun a hare's-foot fern of the genus Davallia
    Davallia pyxidata.
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australian heath

  • noun any heathlike plant of the family Epacridaceae; most are of the Australian region
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australian honeysuckle

  • noun shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers
    honeysuckle; Banksia integrifolia; coast banksia.
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australian labor party

  • noun the oldest political party in Australia, founded in 1891; the party is moderately liberal
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australian lungfish

  • noun an endangered species of lungfish found in rivers in Queensland
    Neoceratodus forsteri; Queensland lungfish.
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australian magpie

  • noun black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies
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australian nettle

  • noun any of several tall Australian trees of the genus Laportea
    Australian nettle.
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australian nettle tree

  • noun any of several tall Australian trees of the genus Laportea
    Australian nettle.
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australian pea

  • noun South African evergreen partly woody vine grown for its clusters of rosy purple flowers followed by edible pods like snap beans; also grown as green manure; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
    Dipogon lignosus; Dolichos lignosus.
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australian pine

  • noun common Australian tree widely grown as an ornamental in tropical regions; yields heavy hard red wood
    Casuarina equisetfolia.
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australian pitcher plant

  • noun a carnivorous perennial herb having a green pitcher and hinged lid both with red edges; western Australia
    Cephalotus follicularis.
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australian reed grass

  • noun tall Australian reedlike grass sometimes used for hay
    Calamagrostic quadriseta.
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australian sea lion

  • noun a variety of sea lion found in Australia
    Zalophus lobatus.
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australian state

  • noun one of the several states constituting Australia
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australian stilt

  • noun long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia
    stilt.
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australian sumac

  • noun evergreen of Australia yielding a dark yellow wood
    Rhodosphaera rhodanthema; Rhus rhodanthema.
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australian sword lily

  • noun sedgelike spring-flowering herb having clustered flowers covered with woolly hairs; Australia
    kangaroo's-foot; kangaroo paw; Anigozanthus manglesii; kangaroo-foot plant; kangaroo's paw.
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australian terrier

  • noun small greyish wire-haired breed of terrier from Australia similar to the cairn
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australian turtledove

  • noun small Australian dove
    Stictopelia cuneata; turtledove.
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great australian bight

  • noun a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms
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great australian desert

  • noun general name given to all desert areas in Australia
    Australian Desert.
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native australian

  • noun a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
    Aborigine; Aboriginal; Australian Aborigine; Abo.
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