Needle-wood (Noun)
Meaning
Large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The garden was filled with native plants, including the fragrant needle-wood, which attracted a variety of birds and insects.
- The hikers had to push through thick stands of needle-wood as they made their way through the dense Australian bush.
- The creamy white flowers of the needle-wood shrub added a touch of elegance to the otherwise rugged landscape.
- In the dry season, the needle-wood's pungent leaves helped to repel insects and other pests that might threaten the surrounding plants.
- The Aboriginal people had long used the needle-wood for medicinal purposes, boiling its leaves to make a tea that could treat a variety of ailments.