mallee root

noun

1. the rootstock (rhizome) of a mallee tree, often used as fuel

Example Sentences

More tracks the following day, fresher this time; but though doubtless there was water at the end of them, for several reasons we did not follow them far: first, they were leading south-west and we wished to go north; second, the quantity of mallee root heaps, suggested the possibility that the natives could obtain from them sufficient moisture to live upon.

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