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Definition of bindi-eye in English: bindi-eyenoun ˈbɪndɪʌɪˈbindiˌī A small perennial Australian plant of the daisy family, with a spiky fruit similar to a burr. 楔叶刺冠菊 Calotis cuneifolia, family Compositae Example sentencesExamples - The traditional suburban back yard replete with bindi-eyes, Hills Hoist, barbecue and pool is on the way out, with an increasing number of homeowners opting for smaller, sustainable, environmentally friendly gardens.
- He told me of one disciplinary action where students had to carry timber in bare feet across an oval, which had a lot of bindi-eye in the turf (bindi-eye is a particularly unpleasant little prickle which blooms around October in these parts).
- I reckon what really gives the bindi-eyes their big edge over all else is that their flower is borne well below the level of the mower blade.
- The bitumen melted on the road outside and stuck to our thongs - it was the first summer I remember I actually chose to wear shoes - even the bindi-eyes burnt through your calluses.
- It should be, when a patch of bindi-eye would pose a bigger threat than the Hastings defence.
- She would have run off, if I had let her - I caught her one day heading for the thistled horse paddocks; after that I kept her tender feet unshod and let the bindi-eyes do the policing with their peculiarly masculine and wordless perseverance.
- Bindii (bindi-eye) - ferocious little plants that lurk in the lawn and then attach themselves to any part of the anatomy they can reach.
- And my mother's lemon meringue pie and the bindi-eyes in, the backyard,
- The local flora of the immediate area is grass, more grass, and bindi-eye.
- Actually, there are two kinds of bindi-eyes.
- My childhood summers on the Central Coast were spent in a house at McMasters Beach with an outdoor dunny full of redback spiders, a vast lawn full of bindi-eye and a tramp through the bush to the beach.
- Despite last night's rain, the coarse grass, infested with patches of burrs and bindi-eyes, crunched under her sandaled feet, the wetness flicking up on her legs, itching her skin.
OriginEarly 20th century: perhaps from an Aboriginal language. Definition of bindi-eye in US English: bindi-eyenounˈbindiˌī A small perennial Australian plant of the daisy family, with a spiky fruit similar to a burr. 楔叶刺冠菊 Calotis cuneifolia, family Compositae Example sentencesExamples - Actually, there are two kinds of bindi-eyes.
- She would have run off, if I had let her - I caught her one day heading for the thistled horse paddocks; after that I kept her tender feet unshod and let the bindi-eyes do the policing with their peculiarly masculine and wordless perseverance.
- The bitumen melted on the road outside and stuck to our thongs - it was the first summer I remember I actually chose to wear shoes - even the bindi-eyes burnt through your calluses.
- My childhood summers on the Central Coast were spent in a house at McMasters Beach with an outdoor dunny full of redback spiders, a vast lawn full of bindi-eye and a tramp through the bush to the beach.
- The traditional suburban back yard replete with bindi-eyes, Hills Hoist, barbecue and pool is on the way out, with an increasing number of homeowners opting for smaller, sustainable, environmentally friendly gardens.
- It should be, when a patch of bindi-eye would pose a bigger threat than the Hastings defence.
- Bindii (bindi-eye) - ferocious little plants that lurk in the lawn and then attach themselves to any part of the anatomy they can reach.
- Despite last night's rain, the coarse grass, infested with patches of burrs and bindi-eyes, crunched under her sandaled feet, the wetness flicking up on her legs, itching her skin.
- I reckon what really gives the bindi-eyes their big edge over all else is that their flower is borne well below the level of the mower blade.
- He told me of one disciplinary action where students had to carry timber in bare feet across an oval, which had a lot of bindi-eye in the turf (bindi-eye is a particularly unpleasant little prickle which blooms around October in these parts).
- The local flora of the immediate area is grass, more grass, and bindi-eye.
- And my mother's lemon meringue pie and the bindi-eyes in, the backyard,
OriginEarly 20th century: perhaps from an Aboriginal language. |