kurrajong

plural kurrajongs · alternative currajong · alternative currijong · alternative curryjong · alternative koorajong

1. AustraliaAny 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

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   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

   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

   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

2. AustraliaA peanut tree, Sterculia quadrifida, native to eastern coastal Australia; a red- or orange-fruited kurrajong.

1. A town in the Hawkesbury council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.