ugari

plural ugaris · alternative eugaree · alternative eugarie · alternative yugari · alternative yugarie

1. alsoattributivecountableuncountableThe edible saltwater clam Plebidonax deltoides, which is endemic to Australia.

   Next morning these sisters went out on to the main beach to gather yugaries there.

   1904, Constance Campbell Petrie, chapter XVI, in Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland […], Brisbane, Qld.: Watson, Ferguson & Co., →OCLC, page 123

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   Our blackfellows are animated by no sentiment, and, instead of posing in an attitude, surveying with poetical eye the truly grand scene, search for a bivalve called, in the aboriginal tongue, Yugarie, a delicate member of the mussel family, in much esteem by fishermen as bait, and by the natives as a bonne bouche which makes the sea-side tolerable. To us this trudge across the dismal swamps and sandy ridge signifies a final spectacle of great, if melancholy, grandeur; to Kings Brown and Brady it meant a heavy feed on Yugarie.

   1880 July, “Redspinner” [pseudonym; William Senior], “Camping Out”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym], editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCXLVII (CCXLIX on title page), number 1795, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, pages 63–64

   The shell-fish Donax deltoideus, commonly called ‘ugari’ in Southern Queensland, seem gifted with intellect or reasoning powers.

   1917 August 16, The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W.: William Macleod for The Bulletin Newspaper Co. Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22, column 4

   There was the inner core ready to eat with the wallaby, the baked fish, big pearl shell oysters in their shells, and yugari shell-fish.

   1980, Thomas Albert Roy, The Vengeance of the Dolphin, London: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 144

   The occupants fished, flaked stone for artefacts and built fires but did not gather many shellfish locally (most of the few fragments found in this phase are identifiable as Eugarie from the east coast).

   1989, J[ay] Hall, G. Bowen, “An Excavation of a Midden Complex at the Toulkerrie Oystermens Lease, Moreton Island, S.E. Queensland”, in Queensland Archaeological Research, volume 6, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld.: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2020, page 24

   As we lived on an island, sea foods were in abundance. Our sea spirit Quandamooka, which the Europeans renamed Moreton Bay, kept us well supplied with food. Fish, oysters, crabs, quampee (pearl shell), eugaree (pippy) and dugong (sea cow).

   1990, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, “Note”, in Jack Davis, Mudrooroo Narogin, Stephen Muecke, Adam Shoemaker, editors, Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page vii

   Synonyms: Coorong cockle, Goolwa cockle, pipi, pippie