silver-leaved ironbark

English

Alternative forms
  • silver-leafed ironbark, silver-leaf ironbark

Noun

silver-leaved ironbark (plural silver-leaved ironbarks)

  1. A small tree with blue-grey foliage, Eucalyptus melanophloia, of Queensland and northern New South Wales. [from 19th c.]
    • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 270:
      Annabelle recognised the silver-leaved ironbarks, stunted and twisted in their growth, pale golden wattle in bloom, the dense scrub pressing to the verge of the road.
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