Word.ws English Dictionary

boobialla

boobialla noun: any of various plants of coastal or sandy regions, especially a small tree Acacia longifolia (subsp. sophorae), and various flowering plants in the genus Myoporum in the figwort family.

Noun

boobialla (plural boobiallas)

  1. (Australia) Any of various plants of coastal or sandy regions, especially a small tree Acacia longifolia (subsp. sophorae), and various flowering plants in the genus Myoporum in the figwort family.
    • I grabbed them and splashed across the river and up the far bank, backed deep into a boobialla bush and pulled them in after me.2001, Inga Clendinnen, Tiger's Eye: A Memoir, page 63
    • One hundred and ninety-five years later, I look out over a strip of emerald boobyallas onto a deserted nine-mile beach.2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 9

Forms of boobialla

pluralboobiallas
alternative formboobyalla

Origin of boobialla

Said to be from a southeastern Tasmanian language term bubiala.

Questions about boobialla

What does boobialla mean?
Boobialla means any of various plants of coastal or sandy regions, especially a small tree Acacia longifolia (subsp. sophorae), and various flowering plants in the genus Myoporum in the figwort family.
What part of speech is boobialla?
Boobialla is a noun.
What is the plural of boobialla?
The plural of boobialla is boobiallas.

Words near boobialla in the dictionary

  1. boobgasming
  2. boobgasms
  3. Boobgate
  4. boobhead
  5. boobheads
  6. boobialla
  7. boobiallas
  8. boobie
  9. boobied
  10. boobier
  11. boobies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boobialla (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “boobialla.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/boobialla. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.