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Definition of Coolabah
1. a type of tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coolabah
Literary usage of Coolabah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1901)
"From coolabah, New South Wales. Presented by Mr. RW Peacock, August 3, 1900.
A much-branched trailing perennial. The whole plant is covered with glaucous ..."
2. The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia by K. Langloh Parker (1905)
"No wonder the women cover themselves under a blanket when they see a whirlwind
coming, and avoid drooping coolabah trees, believing that either may make ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1901)
"The name " coolabah " is also given to two or three species of Eucalypts, and it
comes rather as a surprise to a botanist travelling west to be shown these ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1902)
"From coolabah, New South Wales. Presented by Mr. RW Peacock, August 3, 1900.
A much-branched trailing perennial. The whole plant is covered with glaucous ..."
5. The Independent Review (1905)
"Souls awaiting incarnation hide in the drooping branches of the coolabah tree ;
and each child is born with a coolabah leaf in its mouth. ..."
6. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: With Notes and by Great Britain Court of Chancery (1854)
"... 1800, named Anne Nesbitt Anderson, the late wife of the plaintiff. There is
in India, born at coolabah, on the (meaning the defendant, ..."
7. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery [1829-1830]: By the by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Leach, John Tamlyn (1831)
"There is in India, born at coolabah, on the (meaning the Defendant Caroline
Erskine Anderson). To those children, or the survivors of them, and their heirs, ..."
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