Sentence:  This paper describes a preliminary field experiment designed to examine the effect of supplementing sheep fed <WSD>mulga</WSD> with several proprietary licks and a more comprehensive field experiment to evaluate the effect of the most promising lick fed with cottonseed meal. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Any of a number of small acacia trees, especially (noshow=1), forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of Australia.