cudgerie
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Bandjalang gajari.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cudgerie
- (Australia) A tall rainforest tree of eastern Australia (Sloanea australis: Oxalidales).
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 104:
- We would want mountain ash or white ash for spars; blue fig for struts; cudgerie for the fuselage.
- (Australia) silver ash, bumpy ash (Flindersia schottiana), a tree of Queensland.
Synonyms[edit]
- (Sloanea australis): maiden's blush, blush alder, blush carrabeen, blush carrobean
- (Flindersia schottiana): flindosy-beech, floppy-leaf-ash, mountain-ash, northern silver-ash, southern silver-ash
References[edit]
- cudgerie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Sloanea+australis at The Plant List
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