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mulgas

mulgas is the plural of mulga.

Meaning of mulga

Noun

mulga (plural mulgas)

  1. (Australia) Any of a number of small acacia trees, especially Acacia aneura, forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of Australia.
    • Ford (1969) points out that it is distributed from southern Northern Territory and northern South Australia west through mulga country of the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts to the coast of Western Australia.1981, Joseph Michael Forshaw, William T. Cooper, Australian Parrots, page 246
  2. (Australia, preceded by definite article) Any region where mulga is the predominant vegetation.
  3. (Australia, colloquial, in-compounds) The outback.
    • I'd forgotten for a moment you are not all mulga-bred […]1901, Jack Mathieu, “That Day at Boiling Downs”, in Australian Ballads & Short Stories, Penguin, published 2003, page 263
  4. Something made from the wood of a mulga tree.

Questions about mulgas

What is mulgas the plural of?
Mulgas is the plural of mulga.

Words near mulgas in the dictionary

  1. mulga snakes
  2. mulga wire
  3. mulga wires
  4. mulgara
  5. mulgaras
  6. mulgas
  7. Mulgoa
  8. Mulgrave
  9. Mulgrew
  10. Mulguthrie
  11. Mulhacén

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