nealie Austral.
(ˈniːlɪ)
Also nelia.
[Etym. unknown.]
= needle-bush (b) (needle n. 14).
| 1889 [see needle-bush s.v. needle n. 14]. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Nov. 21/4 Two miles farther on..was a mile⁓wide stretch of nelia scrub. 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xxxviii. 326 Where had all the mulga gone, the whitewood, and acacias, and turpentine bush, the black oak and nelia, and bullocky bush, the thick shrub life that had carpeted this country when he rode through here a boy? 1965 [see needle-bush s.v. needle n. 14]. |