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mulga

/ˈmʌlɡə/ US, UK
/ˈmɐlɡə/ Australia
[ˈmɔʊlɡɐ] Australia

Rhymes with -ʌlɡə

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From Gamilaraay malga.

noun mulgas

Australia Any of a number of small acacia trees, especially Acacia aneura, forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of Australia. Ford (1969) points out that it is distributed from southern Northern Territory and northern South Australia west through mulga country of the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts to the coast of Western Australia.
Australia Any region where mulga is the predominant vegetation.
Australia, colloquial, in compounds The outback. I'd forgotten for a moment you are not all mulga-bred […]
Something made from the wood of a mulga tree.
abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of mulga wire (“a message or story transmitted through an informal gossip network, especially one containing false information”).

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@misc{mulga_2026,
  title = {mulga},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mulga},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}