Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nature strip

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English

Syllables: na-ture strip
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Australian usage

Example Sentences

"Dreamt I stood on a nature strip where a Kombi van was parked."
"There was a path across the nature strip that was frequently used by pedestrians to cross the service road."
"Neighbours mowed their green-jube nature strips bordering Agatha′s garden and did not report her to the local council."
"2009, Mary Horsfall, Creating Your Eco-Friendly Garden, CSIRO Publishing, page 107, 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."
"Mrs Harridene accuses the said three schoolchildren of throwing bunches of seedpods onto her corrugated iron roof, having stolen the bunches of seedpods from the jacaranda tree located on her nature strip."

Usage

Australian usage

Inflected Forms

nature strips (plural)

Questions

What does nature strip mean?: 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.

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