Množina: mallees

ETYM Native name.
Any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts.
Small trees and shrubs of the genus Eucalyptus with many small stems and thick underground roots that retain water. Before irrigation farming began, dense thickets of mallee characterized most of NW Victoria, Australia, known as the mallee region.
(Australian) a eucalyptus shrub; thick growth of such shrubs; area covered by such growth.

Množina: mallee fowls

Australian moundbird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds; SYN. leipoa, lowan, Leipoa ocellata.

Množina: mallee hens

Adult female mallee fowl.