wodgil
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Etymology edit
Perhaps from an Indigenous language of Western Australia. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Noun edit
wodgil (plural wodgils)
- The plant Acacia neurophylla, a shrub or tree endemic to southwestern Australia.
- 1921, Gordon Taylor, The Agricultural Bank and Industries Assistance Board, Or, Government Loans to Farmers in Western Australia, page 62:
- The cheerless sight, sometimes met, of land once cleared and ploughed, now overgrown by the stunted wodgil, pointed a moral. This type of country had been easier to clear than forest country. Settlers had been encouraged to settle […]
- A poor, acidic soil, upon which shrubby vegetation dominated by acacia grows.
- 1987, Western Australia. Department of Agriculture, Annual Report:
- The soils are generally the more acid, such as the wodgils of the eastern wheatbelt and the deeper sands of coastal regions.