boobialla

== English == === Alternative forms === boobyalla === Etymology === Said to be from a southeastern Tasmanian language term bubiala. === Noun === boobialla (plural boobiallas) (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. [from 19th c.] 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 9: One hundred and ninety-five years later, I look out over a strip of emerald boobyallas onto a deserted nine-mile beach. ==== Translations ====