(various spellings, Belah, billa,beela, beal), an aboriginal name for the tree Casuarinaglauca. Grasses of New Zealand,' whichenumerates eighty species, many of them unnamed in English, andmany of them common also to Australia and Tasmania. : With scowl indignant flashing from his eye, As though to wither each unshaven wretch, Jack jogs along, nor condescends reply, As to the price his cabbage-tree might fetch. 277: A dull scene, sprinkled with funereal shiak or `she-oaktrees.
The connection is probably the comic-song refrain, Hey derrydown derry. 127: The birds are very beautiful--the Blue Mountain and Lowrieparrots . `Victorian Hansard,' Jan. Let'sharness up Eclipse and go over to old Yamnibar.
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