jam-tree

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English

Acacia acuminata flowers and foliage

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Noun

jam-tree (plural jam-trees)

  1. (Australia) Acacia acuminata, a flowering tree species from Australia.
    Synonyms: jamwood, jam wattle, raspberry wattle
    • 1911, Emu - Austral Ornithology, volume 10, number 4, →DOI, page 299:
      Althought this species of Shrike-Thrush is very common in this district, I have so far only seen one other nest, and that was about 10 feet from the ground, built in the fork of a jam-tree, and contained two fresh eggs on the 21st October 1907.
    • 2001, John Kinsella, From "The Avon River Poems", volume 179, →JSTOR, section 1, pages 80-83:
      Dance meeting of the stilt-legged birds, aquatic slurring, in the blue-green algae slough of a bright curing, black curve of ibis beak, harrowing concentrated water and solubles, as one line passes over teal, river gum, composition of swamp-oak and jam-tree, farmhouse on the edge of, run-off orienteering: sacred kingfisher brightening up, or shot and kept quiet, pacific black duck, regionally cosmopol.

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