boobialla

1. (Australia) Any of various plants of coastal or sandy regions, especially a small tree Acacia longifolia (subsp. sophorae), and various flowering plants in the genus Myoporum in the figwort family.Examples: "I grabbed them and splashed across the river and up the far bank, backed deep into a boobialla bush and pulled them in after me."; "One hundred and ninety-five years later, I look out over a strip of emerald boobyallas onto a deserted nine-mile beach."; "And remember dead boobialla branches have one aim when you are gathering them, chopping them, lopping them, splitting them, breaking them under your boot – and that aimm is to gouge out your eye, to lance your hands, to trip you up, to deflect the axe into your boot, to kill you if possible."Australia