queensland : Idioms & Phrases

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queensland bottletree

  • noun large tree of Queensland having cream-colored flowers blotched with red inside; sometimes placed in genus Sterculia
    narrow-leaved bottletree; Brachychiton rupestris; Sterculia rupestris.
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queensland grass-cloth plant

  • noun Australian plant of genus Pipturus whose fiber is used in making cloth
    Pipturus argenteus.
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queensland hemp

  • noun herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute; sometimes an aggressive weed
    jellyleaf; Sida rhombifolia.
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queensland kauri

  • noun Australian timber tree resembling the kauri but having wood much lighter in weight and softer
    Agathis robusta; dundathu pine; smooth bark kauri.
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queensland lungfish

  • noun an endangered species of lungfish found in rivers in Queensland
    Neoceratodus forsteri; Australian lungfish.
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queensland nut

  • noun bushy tree with pink to purple flowers
    Macadamia tetraphylla.
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Queens"land nut`
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  1. (Bot.) The nut of an Australian tree (Macadamia ternifolia). It is about an inch in diameter, and contains a single round edible seed, or sometimes two hemispherical seeds. So called from Queensland in Australia.
Webster 1913