mallee
- n any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts
- From horizon to horizon there is nothing but red earth, squat, pale-green mulga trees and dense mallee shrubs.
- Or the mallee fowl, which assiduously builds an incubator for its eggs and keeps the temperature inside at a steady 95, come rain or shine? Curious specimens these, but .
- The mainly mallee and saltbush country is flat and unforgiving.