Meanings
plural eremophilas
- Any of the genus Eremophila of Australian desert shrubs and trees.
Crimson and orange chats whistled from the heath of spinifex, pittosporums, mulga and eremophila scrubs growing along the sides of the lake.
2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 190
Origin
- translingualEremophila
- Englisheremophila
Borrowed from translingual Eremophila.
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