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kurrajong en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Dharug garrajung (“fishing line”), from the use made of the bark.

Meanings

1. (Australia) Any of a number of species of tree or shrub in the genus Brachychiton.
   • The groves of Kurrajongs along the saddle of Mount Majura were founded last century. 2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 90:
   • The black kurrajong has a fibrous bark that Aboriginal artefact-makers used as a raw material to make string for their lines and carry-bags. 2008, Philip A. Clarke, Aboriginal Plant Collectors: Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century, page 50:
   • From the mallee and kurrajong trees came a rowdy chatter of parakeets, while queer soughing of air-currents came from the valley top. 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 187:
   • My young friend, Master Keith McKeown, now finds this beetle under the stones about the roots of the kurrajong at Wagga, and also sheltering during the winter in the seed-pods on the trees. 1906, Henry Charles Lennox Anderson, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, volume 16:
2. (Australia) A peanut tree, Sterculia quadrifida, native to eastern coastal Australia; a red- or orange-fruited kurrajong.

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Deriveds

red-flowered kurrajong · pink kurrajong · kurrajong leaf roller · red-fruited kurrajong · desert kurrajong · lace kurrajong · white kurrajong · northern kurrajong · green kurrajong