Mulga vs Mulla - What's the difference?
mulga | mulla |
(Australia) Any of a number of small acacia trees, especially , forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of Australia.
* 1981 , Joseph Michael Forshaw, William T. Cooper, Australian Parrots ,
* 1983 , Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, The Queensland Journal of Agriculture and Animal Science , Volumes 40-42,
* 1996 , Lynn Baker, Mingkiri: A Natural history of Ulu?ru by the Mu?titjulu Community ,
* 2002 , Brad Collis, CSIRO (Australia), Fields of Discovery: Australia?s CSIRO ,
(Australia, colloquial, in combination) The outback.
* 1901 , Jack Mathieu, ‘That Day at Boiling Downs’, Australian Ballads & Short Stories , Penguin 2003, p. 263:
Something made from the wood of a mulga tree.
A mulga wire.
As nouns the difference between mulga and mulla
is that mulga is (australia) any of a number of small acacia trees, especially , forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of australia while mulla is heartache, heartbreak.mulga
English
(wikipedia mulga)Noun
(en noun)page 246,
- 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.
page 68,
- This paper describes a preliminary field experiment designed to examine the effect of supplementing sheep fed mulga with several proprietary licks and a more comprehensive field experiment to evaluate the effect of the most promising lick fed with cottonseed meal.
page 26,
- There are several different types of mulga', and Anangu know the different food which comes from them. For example, insects make a thing like a small apple on the ''pakuta'' (horse '''mulga'''). This one is good to eat but there is another one on a different sort of ' mulga which is not edible.
page 15,
- The return of mulgas , native grasses and other shrubs was finally giving wildlife researchers some hope that numerous animals on the endangered species list might yet be saved if their ecosystems could be restored.
- I'd forgotten for a moment you are not all mulga -bred [...].
