wodgil

plural wodgils

1. The plant Acacia neurophylla, a shrub or tree endemic to southwestern Australia.

   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[…]

   1921, Gordon Taylor, The Agricultural Bank and Industries Assistance Board, Or, Government Loans to Farmers in Western Australia, page 62

2. A poor, acidic soil, upon which shrubby vegetation dominated by acacia grows.

   The soils are generally the more acid, such as the wodgils of the eastern wheatbelt and the deeper sands of coastal regions.

   1987, Western Australia. Department of Agriculture, Annual Report