Anyone of several species of Acacia, especiallyA. slang for a bullockdriver. Maori name for ashrub or small tree, Coriaria ruscifolia, Linn. Maori name for a New Zealandsea-fish, Ditrema violacea.
Guilfoyle, `Australian Botany,' p. 40: Generally these winds end in what is commonly called a`southerly buster. `History of New South Wales' (1818), p. Flinders, `Voyage to Terra Australis,' Intro.
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