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pituri

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pituri [ˈpɪtʃərɪ]
n pl -ris
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an Australian solanaceous shrub, Duboisia hopwoodii, the leaves of which are the source of a narcotic used by the native Australians
[from a native Australian name]


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He focuses on pearl shell from the Pilbara and Kimberley coasts and how the pearl shell journeyed to the inland along three major routes, and how it was exchanged for spears, boomerangs, pituri and pigment.
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The dunes have a scattered-to-moderate overstorey of mulga (Acacia aneura), white cypress pine (Callitris glaucophylla), red box (Eucalyptus intertexta), and rosewood (Alectryou oleifolius) and locally dense stands of narrow-leafed hopbush and pituri (Duboisia hopwoodii).
 
 
 
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