burrawang

(ˈbʌrəwæŋ)

(Plants) any of several Australian cycads of the genus Macrozamia, having an edible nut

[C19: from Mount Budawang, New South Wales]

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References in periodicals archive

The understorey was very sparse and comprised scattered Narrow-leafed Geebung Persoonia linearis, Burrawang Macrozamia communis, Willow-leaved Hakea Hakea salicifolia and Hairpin Banksia Banksia spinulosa.

Notes on a record of the White-footed Dunnart Sminthopsis leucopus (Gray, 1842) (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae) north of Nowra, New South Wales

(1992:115) indicate buruwan and burwan derives from the Dharuk (Dharug) language of the Sydney region; and Hill and Osborne (2001:84) suggest burrawang or burrawan were from the Dharuk language of Aboriginal people from the Sydney and Illawarra regions (see also Kennedy et al.

Aboriginal vernacular names of Australian cycads of Macrozamia, Bowenia and Lepidozamia spp.: a response to "Cycads in the vernacular: a compendium of local names"

A narrower stretch of waterfront land lay at the bottom of the escarpment cliff, west around the riverbank from Morgan's Creek and along Burrawang Reach to the entry of another small creek down a stony gully to join the main river at a point called the Anvil.

The people's national park: working-class environmental campaigns on Sydney's Georges River, 1950-67

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