kwongan

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kwongan (uncountable)

  1. A plant community found in western Australia.
    • 2003, Michael L. Rosenzweig, Win-win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise:
      The kwongan is legendary among plant ecologists because it has an enormous number of plant species, species that occur nowhere else, not even in the rest of Australia.

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