NOUN
- any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits
How To Use geebung In A Sentence
- So has anyone munched any other types of geebungs and could share their tasting notes?
- The general park area was extensively hunted for wallabies, snakes, birds, honey, turtles and their eggs, fresh water mussels, ripe water-lily bulbs, geebungs and the fruit of the ‘noocui’ or pig's face plant.
- The Doctor went to headquarters, but either a drunken doctor from a geebung town wasn't of much account, or they weren't taking any romance just then at headquarters. Over the Sliprails
- You won’t turn a five-corner into a quince, or a geebung into an orange, twist and twine, and dig and water as you like. Robbery Under Arms
- Changes in soil conditions in this area have produced an equally varied understorey of shrubs, with ferns, wattles, banksias, hakeas and geebungs, and a number of native grasses.
- geebung" and native lillypilly berries, a kind of bitter berry from which a nutritious jam is made. Mirror.co.uk - News
- Visitors from Sydney will notice the flannel flowers - many of the peas, boronias, mint-bushes, geebungs and tea trees, however, belong to inland species.
- You won't turn a five-corner into a quince, or a geebung into an orange, twist and twine, and dig and water as you like. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
- In the thick, unfelled bush above the horse-and-cattle yards were native hop, ‘sarsaparilla,’ the bottle-brush flower of the wild honey suckle, together with geebungs, wild cherry, eucalyptus, wattle, kurrajong, and pine.