nature strip

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === nature strip (plural nature strips) (Australia, regional) An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying between the roadway proper and the footpath, if there is one; a tree lawn. 2009, Mary Horsfall, Creating Your Eco-Friendly Garden, CSIRO Publishing, page 107, This is a town with a culture of nature strip gardens. Along our road there are no footpaths, but there are wide nature strips on which many residents have planted gardens of one sort or another. ==== Usage notes ==== There are significant dialectal differences globally for this concept; see tree lawn for details and synonyms. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === parturients