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adjective
- 1. relating to the remote inland area of Australia: informal Australian "Barcoo sickness"
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The Barcoo River, one of the great Western Queensland river systems, has its headwaters near Blackall, flows north-west before turning south to the Channel Country and becoming Cooper Creek. The Barcoo Shire is 61, 794 square kilometres (which equates to the area of Tasmania) and has a population of approximately 460 !
Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Factsheet. What does the noun Barcoo mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun Barcoo. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised.
Australian informal a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
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noun. bar· coo rot. (ˈ)bär¦kü- often capitalized B. : desert sore. Word History. Etymology. from Barcoo, district of Australia, where the disease was common. Love words? You must — there are over 200,000 words in our free online dictionary, but you are looking for one that’s only in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.
In the area you have selected (Barcoo (S)) river flood hazard is classified as high based on modeled flood information currently available to this tool. This means that potentially damaging and life-threatening river floods are expected to occur at least once in the next 10 years.
