bunya

plural bunyas · alternative bunna bunna · alternative bunya bunya · alternative bunyah-bunyah

1. The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland.First known use 19th c.

   Bunya nuts, which come from a conifer in the genus Araucaria, are an example of a plant that fruited so heavily that large stores were set aside.

   2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 150

   2 more examples

   The palm takes the place of the eucalyptus to a certain extent, and the woods teem with the bunya-bunya, — a very desirable and ornamental tree, which belongs to the pine family.

   1887, Maturin Murray Ballou, Under the Southern Cross

   Her three favourite bunyah-bunyah nut trees were destroyed last year to make way for more grazing land for sheep and other animals whose cloven hooves destroyed the delicate topsoil and laid bare the earth.

   1993, Philip McLaren, Sweet Water…Stolen Land, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 142

plural bunyas · alternative bunyah

1. IndiadatedA banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste.

plural bunyas · alternative bougna · alternative bunia

1. A traditional Kanak and Ni-Vanuatu dish

   Synonyms: bougna, bunia