Of or relating to or characteristic of Australia or its inhabitants.

Australian acacia tree.
Aboriginal word for various wattle trees such as the weeping myall Acacia pendula found in semiarid areas of the E states of Australia and the coastal myall A. glaucescens of New South Wales and Queensland.

The genus of the Australian bottlebrush.

Any of several Australian and New Zealand shrubs of the genus Olearia, family Compositae, with flowers like daisies and felted or hollylike leaves. Any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays; SYN. daisy bush.

Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.

Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers; Also called: genus Olearia.

Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.

Any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed.
Any of several North American poplars of the genus Populus, with seeds topped by a thick tuft of silky hairs. The eastern cottonwood P. deltoides, growing to 30 m/100 ft, is native to the eastern US. The name cottonwood is also given to the downy-leaved Australian tree Bedfordia salaoina.

ETYM From the native name, womback, wombach, in Australia.
Burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger.
Any of a family (Vombatidae) of burrowing, herbivorous marsupials, native to Tasmania and S Australia. They are about 1 m/3.3 ft long, heavy, with a big head, short legs and tail, and coarse fur.
The two living species include the common wombat Vombatus ursinus of Tasmania and SE Australia, and Lasiorhirnus latifrons, the plains wombat of S Australia.(Australian) bearlike marsupial; Australian badger.

(acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) General term for all troops of both countries serving in World War I, particularly one who fought at Gallipoli, and to some extent in World War II. It began as a code name based on the initials of the Corps in Jan 1915. The term may also be used generally of any Australian or New Zealand soldier, though “digger” is more usual.

A laborer who digs.