wodgils

Noun

wodgil (plural wodgils)

1. The plant Acacia neurophylla, a shrub or tree endemic to southwestern Australia.
   • The cheerless sight, sometimes met, of land once cleared and ploughed, now overgrown by the stunted wodgil, pointed a moral. This type of country had been easier to clear than forest country. Settlers had been encouraged to settle[…]1921, Gordon Taylor, The Agricultural Bank and Industries Assistance Board, Or, Government Loans to Farmers in Western Australia, page 62
2. A poor, acidic soil, upon which shrubby vegetation dominated by acacia grows.
   • The soils are generally the more acid, such as the wodgils of the eastern wheatbelt and the deeper sands of coastal regions.1987, Western Australia. Department of Agriculture, Annual Report