Item 01: 'Australian Aboriginal words and names collected by Robert Leycester Dawson', 17 September 1922 - Page 15

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[Page 15]

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                            - Trees -

A Tree (general)                      Talli
Dead tree                               Tulgai
A branch                                Terrung
A root                                    Wyon
A sapling                               Kygum
Scrub or brush                       Woorbai
Leaves                                  Woorang
Charcoal                                Gnoi

                   Trees of the Brushes

Red Cedar (Cedrela Australis)              Woodyea
Hoop Pine    (Araucaria Cunninghamii)  Coorung
Grand Fig                            Thumbul or Booyea
Small Fig                                           Murro
Beech (Gmelina Leichhardlii)             Bunnaburra
Black bean (or Moreton Bay Chestnut    Bogum
                    caslariospermum australe)
Silky Oak  (Grevillea robusta)                 Bugain
Ironwood                                             Booyong
Flame tree                                          Bullawai
Corkwood   (Ackama Muelleri)           Boonbooral
Black apple                                      Tyumbai
Stinging tree                                      Tyeebin
Water gum (Tristania laurina)              Coolman
(Note Watergum is scarcely a brushwood. It  grows along creeks and water courses)
                                                      (over)

 

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