Melaleuca Definition

mĕlə-lo͝okə
noun
Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Melaleuca, native chiefly to Australia, having aromatic leaves containing essential oils and usually papery white bark.
American Heritage
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Myrtaceae — certain tea trees, honey myrtles, and paperbarks.

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Noun

Singular:
melaleuca
Plural:
melaleucas

Origin of Melaleuca

  • New Latin genus name Greek melās black (probably from the black trunks or the black inner bark of some melaleuca species) Greek leukos white leuk- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Melaleuca Sentence Examples

  • Tea tree oil comes from the Australian plant, melaleuca alternifolia.

  • Myrtaceae comes next with Eucalyptus, which forms three-fourths of the forests, and Melaleuca; both are absent from New Caledonia and New Zealand; a few species of the former extend to New Guinea and one of the latter to Malaya.

  • There is much less moisture, and the flora is of a less tropical character than farther north; it has some Polynesian and New Zealand affinities, and on the west coast a partially Australian character; on the higher hills it is stunted; on the lower, however, there are fine .grass lands, and a scattered growth of niaulis (Melaleuca viridiflora), useful for its timber, bark and cajeput oil.

  • The only important exports, however, are cajeput oil, a sudorific distilled from the leaves of the Melaleuca Cajuputi or white-wood tree; and timber.

  • Australian farmers grow Melaleuca or tea trees on plantation throughout the northeast coast of New South Wales.

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Words Starting With

MMEMEL

Words Ending With

ACAUCA

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