Trees and bushes
alangunta���noun. 1�•�tree from whose roots a yellow dye is obtained, and whose fruit is eaten as a cure for coughs and colds. Morinda citrifolia. Variant:�Iwaidja: Makula. Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine. Anth: Used to treat coughs, colds and diarrhoea. Preparation: One ripe fruit is eaten raw. Fruit goes white when it is ripe. Single treatment brings considerable symptomatic improvement. Found only in the dry season. The yellow roots are used to make a dye for Pandanus.
2�•�rotten Cheese Fruit, Cheese Fruit. The fruit of the alangunta tree. Ja alangunta naka kiwuma ingijalk kiwula pa marrik amangawu ja mangawj la marrik amajung tuka majarr. ‘They get the fruit from the Alangunta tree and eat it. This helps to prevent coughs or sickness in the throat.’ alangunta ja karrkpin ‘a big one’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food, Medicine. Anth: Used to ease a cough or eye inflammation.
3�•�Dye is extracted. Category:�Dye and fibre plants. Anth: Used to dye pandanus for basket making. It may be yellow, red or brown depending on how it is treated. It is mixed with milirriny or kaluku ash to make red colour.
alapanja1���noun. Beach Hibiscus. A tree from which rope is made. Hibiscus tiliaceus. Variant:�Iwaidja: Alapanjar. Alapanja naka kampungula alguru. ‘From the alapanja tree they make rope and string.’ Category:�Trees and bushes, Dye and fibre plants. Anth: It grows near the beach and has large yellow flowers. It is used to make rope.
alguru���noun. 1�•�type of tree that grows on the mainland and is good for making dugong rope. Category:�Trees and bushes, Items for fishing.
2�•�string, rope. After kiwutikiny mata alguru, wrap around with the rope ‘Then he wraps himself up in the rope.’ Category:�Items for fishing.
arlmarra���noun. Woollybutt. Eucalyptus miniata, E. confertiflora E. jensenii (ironbark), E. phoenicea. Category:�Trees and bushes.
Arnanarnan���noun. smilax, a tree type found in the jungle. Smilax australis. Variant:�Iwaja: Arnanarnan. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: Not eaten. Found in the jungle walmurtja. Has sharp prickles.
aparlangurri���noun. plant type. Micromelum minutum. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: Used to make spears.
aparlmurrka���noun. Rock Pandanus. Pandanus basedowii. Variant:�Iwaidja: Gabarrmurrga. See:�murwala�‘Pandanus’. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: Not eaten.
Artamurrka���noun. Pipe tree, White tree. Scaevola taccada. Variant:�Iwaidja: Midarrk or Wilawila. Category:�Trees and bushes.
awarlk���noun. 1�•�fruit of the Awarlk tree. Ngarrila ja Awarlk. ‘I eat Awarlk berries.’ Category:�Plant food. Anth: Edible white berries.
2�•�White currant. A small shrub with edible white berries. Flueggea virosa, formerly Securinega melanthesoides. Variant:�Iwaidja: Awalk. Anth: Edible white fruit are ripe in the rainy season, walmatpalmat. They grow in the jungle, walmurtja. Nganymayawng mata Awarlk. ‘I see an Awarlk tree.’ Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine. Anth: Strong wood that is used for making alawi nets. Wood is burnt in the process.
ikirl���noun. Milkwood tree. Alstonia actinophylla. See:�wururrkjanyjuk�‘Milkwood tree’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
ininarnti���noun. Beauty Leaf, a type of tree which can irritate the skin. Calophyllum sil, Calophyllum inophyllum. Variant:�Iwaidja: Yininardi. Arrkpujpikpi arij Ininarnti nakapa. ‘We swell up in lumps, from that Ininarnti.’ Category:�Trees and bushes.
inymulwapi���noun. tree type, used to make things. Xanthostemon paradoxus. Variant:�Iwaidja: Walart. See:�majamurlirra�‘Kurrajong tree’. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: Wood hard and strong. It is used for carving, making digging sticks and other things.
irrilga���noun. a bush which grows at edge of beach a bit like a thicket. Pemphis acidula. Variant:�Iwaidja: Arndiny. Purrkut kamalangali. ‘They grow close together.’ Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine. Anth: Used to treat ulcers, scabies, skin infections and burns. Preparation: Scrape bark off branches, place branches in bill with water and put on fire. Leave until warm and then put affected area into a bowl of the liquid. Very hard timber used to make many things. Not eaten.
Irriyala���noun. Red Bush apple, not growing on beach. Syzygium suborbiculare (inland). Variant:�Iwaidja: Yirriyala. See:�wardwardang�‘Red Apple (beach form)’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food. Anth: Fruit a red colour. Have strong 'cheeky' taste; can only be eaten when they are really ripe and falling on the ground.
irrkurl���noun. 1�•�Blind-eye mangrove. Excoecaria agallocha, Excoecaria ovalis. Category:�Mangroves, Dye and fibre plants, Toxic plants. Anth: Used to make a black dye for making baskets. The leaves are heated until they release the black dye. It has a milky sap that is dangerous to your eyes that makes your skin itch.
2�•�mangrove type. Bruguiera gymnorrhiza. Category:�Trees and bushes, Dye and fibre plants.
itpalk���noun. wattle species. Acacia gonocarpa, Acacia oncinocarpa. See:�wirarrwirarr�‘Wattle type’. Anth: Very important calendar plant that signals many things. Sign that it is time to get rlunguran small trevally. Flowering is a sign of wumulukuk 'cold season' when manpiri 'Green-back turtle' has a lot of fat in it. Category:�Trees and bushes, Calendar plants.
Iwiya manya���noun. a spreading tree with conspicuous yellow flowers that grows in the jungle. Variant:�Iwaidja: Wurrungmilurrungmil. Category:�Trees and bushes.
jampang���noun. tamarind. Tamarindus indica. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food.
kakurlkakurl���noun. Emu berry. Anth: Fruit is eaten. Grewia retusifolia. Variant:�Iwaidja: Kakurlkakurl. Syn:�kurrunnyurrun. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food.
kaluku���noun. 1�•�coconut tree. Muka mata kaluku. ‘This is a Coconut tree.’ Category:�Trees and bushes, Introduced plants, Dye and fibre plants. Anth: This is the only type of palm tree not covered by the generic term marruny. Ash is mixed with alangunta to create a different dye colour for baskets.
2�•�coconut fruit. Category:�Plant food.
kamatangaliki���iv. Restrict:�VE obj tree fall over. Category:�Trees and bushes, Vertical motion.
karntirrkan���noun. Cypruss Pine. Callitris intratropica. Category:�Trees and bushes.
karntirrkanyun���noun. stand of cypress pine trees. Category:�Trees and bushes.
kapaja���noun. 1�•�plant which produces a cotton wool-like substance in its seed- box. Gossypium hirsutum. Anth: Fruit are eaten by children. See:�nganyumparrga�‘wild cotton’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food.
2�•�cotton wool. Category:�Other.
karawu���noun. wattle type. Anth: Flowering is a sign that Green-back Turtle (manpiri) is fat. This plant looks similar to wirarrwirarr but grows away from the beach. Acacia leptocarpa? Acacia difficilis?. See:�wirarrwirarr�‘Wattle species’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Calendar plants.
kartungkun1���noun. 1�•�shin. Category:�Limbs.
2�•�Ironwood tree. Erythrophleum chlorostachys. Variant:�Iwaidja: kartungkun. Muka mata kartungkun kampartpan tuka panikin, Yara mangiri kampartpan. Kayirrk la kawuryi pata kiwatpi wurrupurru ja kawinyji arrkarrk. ‘They boil the ironbark leaves in a billy. At other times they might boil the bark instead. Then those who have a rash and are scratching themselves bathe in the liquid.’ Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine, Toxic plants. Anth: Used to treat skin infections. Preparation: chop bark off tree, boil and use liquid on skin. Warning: can cause anaphylaxis when eaten by children. The leaves are also used to smoke the house when people die, to rid it of spirits.
kartungkunyun���noun. stand of ironwood trees. Category:�Trees and bushes.
kepkep���noun. white apple. Edible fruit tree. Syzygium eucalyptoides ssp. bleeseri, formertly Eugenia bleeseri. Variant:�Iwaidja: Yabyab. See:�wardwardang�‘Red apple’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food. Anth: Wild apple found on the mainland
kujurn���noun. 1�•�white clay. See:�karlwa�‘white clay’. Category:�Soil, Clothing, adornment, magic items.
2�•�salmon Gum. Eucalyptus alba var. australasica, Eucalyptus apodophylla. See:�wurriny�‘Whitewood, Salmon gum, River red gum, Ghost gum’. Category:�Trees and bushes. Note: May cover other species with smooth, dull white bark too.
kunkarlk���noun. 1�•�tree type. Premna serratifolia. Variant:�Iwaidja: Girdbu. See:�kunkarrk�‘Chinese Fingernail clam’; purl�‘light fire with firesticks’. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: tree from which upright firestick is obtained
2�•�upright part of fire stick. Category:�Tools, men's, Fire.
kunparlparl���noun. tree type. Denhamia obscura. Category:�Trees and bushes.
kurnpi���noun. green plum, a plum about 1cm in diameter. Buchanania obovata. Variant:�Iwaidja: Yurrulk. Muka mata kurnpi kampuma mawiya la mangiri. La kamaju tuka wilarri wularr naka kawa kampuma kurnpi mawiya. Kawani tuka yungku la kawuntuwunyaka la kawuntumilitpakpa pata wigarnpa la wilarri. Kawalyu kamin nungmalal. ‘They would get the leaves and bark from the Wild Plum. When they are sick in their legs or their legs are hurting them, then they go and get Wild Plum leaves. They warm the patient near the fire and put the poultice their legs. Then they feel good.’ See:�marnpi�‘wild plum species’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food, Medicine. Anth: Bush medicine plant used for toothache. Stem is heated and outer bark is removed, then used as toothpick. Leaves can also be heated and applied to cheek.
rlawirrji���noun. swamp bloodwood. Eucalyptus ptychocarpa. Category:�Trees and bushes.
Rlurrkala���noun. native Cashew. Semecarpus australiensis. Variant:�Iwaidja: Lurrkala. Category:�Trees and bushes, Toxic plants. Anth: Tree with poisonous sap that can damage skin. Fruit can be eaten but people do not eat it anymore.
majamurlirra���noun. Red Kurrajong tree. Brachychiton megaphyllus, Brachychiton paradoxum?. Variant:�Iwajda: Majamulirra. Mangkulyuwu kamalangali Majamurlirra. ‘Kurrajong trees grow at Mangkulyuwu (a swamp).’ See:�inymulwapi�‘Kurrajong tree’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food, Calendar plants. Anth: Type of low bush with large roundish leaves that has blood red flower which blooms before leaves appear. 'Old people' used to eat the seeds. There is an old story from the mainland about a man who rubbed his eyes after handling the seeds and turned into a dugong. Flowering of this plant is a sign that dugong have a lot of fat on them.
malngpi���noun. Peanut Tree. Sterculia quarifida. Variant:�Iwaidja: Angarl/Malkirr. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food. Anth: Tree with edible black seeds contained in an orange pod. Grows on Warruwi and features in story Kortaweli.
mamanga���noun. main part of tree trunk from its base to where the branches start to come out. See main entry: wumanga. See:�apanga�‘top part of yam plant’; manimi�‘base of tree trunk, tree stump’. Category:�Plant parts, Trees and bushes.
mamawurr���noun. branch of a tree. mamawurr wularr nganykarrarr ‘mangrove branches’. See main entry: imawurr. Category:�Plant parts, Trees and bushes.
mamungar���noun. type of eucalyptus tree. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: said that the leaves are eaten by manya
mamungkurryuwu���noun. the part of the tree which bends against the wind, ie. neck of the tree. Category:�Plant parts, Trees and bushes. See main entry: imungkurryuwu.
manimi���noun. base of tree trunk, tree stump, blade of grass. La kiwani ja arrarrkpi tuka warlk. ‘And the man's sitting at the tree.’ Manimi warlk, qeqe. ‘Yes, (leaning on) the tree trunk.’ Manimi mata kaluku. Trunk of a coconut tree. See main entry: inimi. Syn:�mangijalk. See:�mamanga�‘main part of tree trunk’. Category:�Plant parts, Trees and bushes.
manjarrpirn���noun. 1�•�wattle species. Acacia aulacocarpa. See:�wuyungpuyung�‘Wattle species’. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: A twig is chewed and dipped into wild honey and then sucked. The bark is used with honey to brew tea.
2�•�tree type (not wattle). Brachychiton diversifolius. Category:�Trees and bushes, Mourning.
mankimanki���noun. 1�•�barb in a stingray's tail. Category:�Rays.
2�•�stingray bush. Category:�Trees and bushes.
mankole���noun. 1�•�Bamboo. Bambusa arnhemica. Variant:�Iwaidja: Alidjbularr or Arnarnar. See:�Yarnawu�‘bamboo’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
2�•�bamboo spear. Category:�Tools, men's.
manmarli���noun. 1�•�tree species, Paperbark type. Category:�Trees and bushes.
2�•�branch with hook on the end used to pull pandanus leaves down for basket making. Category:�Tools, women's.
coverb. hook out of. Kumanyi manmarli. ‘Hook it out of the water.’ Category:�Manipulation.
manpete���noun. a tree which has a yellow inedible fruit. Hakea arborescens?. See:�wirryalkat�‘Hakea arborescens’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
mantorok���noun. tree species. Category:�Trees and bushes.
manyjerrukumarlpa���noun. black currant. Shrub or big tree, fruits used as purple dye for pandanus. Edible fruits. Antidesma ghesaembilla. Variant:�Iwaidja: Mandjirrigumala. See:�ngunymuk�‘Tree with blue-black fruit’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food, Dye and fibre plants.
marnpi���noun. Billy goat plum. Terminalia carpentaria, Terminalia ferdinandiana. Variant:�Iwaidja: Marnypi (T. ferdinandiana). See:�kurnpi�‘wild plum species (Billy goat plum)’. Category:�Plant food, Trees and bushes. Anth: Edible bush plum, green to yellow when ripe. Found in dry open forest at Goulburn Island.
maparra���noun. tree type. Category:�Trees and bushes.
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Marperrngek���noun. tree with edible white berries. Syzygium armstrongii?. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food. Anth: Edible, slightly 'cheeky' fruit.
maryawu���noun. 1�•�Paperbark tree. This term also refers to its bark alone which is used for many things. It is used in cooking and to make shelters. Melaleuca argentea and others. Variant:�Iwaidja: Martiyawu. Maryawu apakan. ‘They made a shelter of Paperbark.’ Mata maryawu naka mampakangung yaw tuka wupaj tuka marruny mawng purlup. Kayirrk la mampuwinypuning larnngalk. Yara tuka wurl ta anyung ta wupaj tuka maryawu kamalangali la kama jurr mata mawiya, kawani purlup pata arrarrkpi pata kiwatpi jilimin nakapa kiniwunpu ja jilimin. ‘They used to put the Paperbark in water in a container made of Palm tree leaves to soak. Then they would wash out their ears (with the water it had soaked in). Sometimes in a waterhole where there are Paperbark trees growing and the leaves fall in the water, people with ringworm will swim to cure themselves.’ See:�marterr�‘large Paperbark trees’; warral�‘Red Paperbark’; jijirok�‘brackish water from a paperbark tree’; iwarnjiwarn�‘a model made of paperbark’; irraj�‘torch made from paperbark’; wulurru�‘paperbark torch, roll of paperbark’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine, Shelter, camp, house.
2�•�playing cards. See:�warral�‘large paperbark tree’; jijirok�‘brackish water from a paperbark tree’. Category:�Other.
warra maryawu���area of paperbarks. Category:�Trees and bushes.
warra maryawu���area of paperbarks. Category:�Trees and bushes.
marriwi���noun. 1�•�tree species. Antiaris toxicaria. Ngana ngiwalalku marriwi ‘I'm going to get bark for making rope.’ Category:�Trees and bushes, Dye and fibre plants. Anth: The bark is stripped and dried and rolled into string to make fishing nets and to attach to turtle harpoon. Also used to make wurlungunngun dilly bags.
2�•�string belt worn around the waist, made from the marriwi tree. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
3�•�the fold of fat around the stomach of dugong, pig or goat. Category:�General.
marterr���noun. large Paperbark trees. See:�maryawu�‘paperbark tree’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
mayak���noun. Strychnine tree, Poison tree. Strychnos Lucida. Variant:�Iwaidja: Ulmbudj; Wurrbadji. Category:�Trees and bushes, Toxic plants, Medicine. Anth: Used to treat leprosy and arthritis. Preparation: crush root and rub onto infected area, or boil leaf in water and place body in bath of this water. Found in both the wet and dry season but only used in the dry season. Fruit are poisonous if ingested.
mayirli���noun. Banksia. Banksia dentata. Variant:�Iwaidja: Mayirli. See:�nganyumparrga�‘camping firestick’. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: Dead flower cones used as a firestick to carry while walking.
mayinpalk���noun. Macaranga, tree species. Macaranga tanarius. Variant:�Iwaidja: mayinbalk. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: Used to make spear shafts such as those for jalakaraj spears.
mayiwilk���noun. 1�•�tree with small leaves which has an edible fruit. Persoonia falcata. Variant:�Iwaidja: Yarnba. See:�wuwarr�‘boys initiation ceremony’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Calendar plants. Anth: Edible. Used to have the Wuwarr ceremony when the fruit came out
2�•�fruit of the mayiwilk tree. These are green nuts that turn yellow. Category:�Plant food.
milirriny���noun. 1�•�bloodwood tree. Corymbia bleeseri. See:�milirrinyun�‘stand of bloodwoods’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Dye and fibre plants. Anth: Ash is mixed with dyes from plants to make darker colours for baskets, e.g. mixed with alangunta. This plant is good firewood and its coals are particularly good for cooking meat on.
2�•�part of dugong guts, perhaps liver. Category:�Mammals.
milirrinyun���noun. a stand of bloodwood trees. See:�milirriny�‘bloodwood’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
mulunymuluny���noun. 1�•�a tree with edible red-brown fruit found in the jungle. Anth: They grow outside but near the edge of the jungle, or near a cliff. Aidia racemosa, Drypetes deplanchei, Ganophyllum falcatum. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food.
2�•�small head lice. See:�martajan�‘large head lice’; kurrpung�‘head lice (generic)’. Category:�Insects.
mulwartpart���noun. shrub type. Heliotropium foertherianum. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food.
munmunka���noun. 1�•�Goat�€š�„ôs-foot convulvulus. Ipomoea pes-caprae. Variant:�Iwaidja: Murnmurnka or Anmulang. Nuka ja munmunka ja iwumangung pata arrarrkpi iwumangung parak tuka kunak. Tuka malangung mata yungku iwuwunyantung wurul ja iwiya. Kayirrk la iwutpangung tuka wun la tuka rluj la tuka wiwari. ‘People used to get the beach vine and take it home. There they would heat the leaves through on the fire. Then they would put it on a sore eye or a boil or any type of sore.’ Anth: Beach vine with a large purple flower very distinctive and easy to identify. It is the only one that grows right on the sand. The leaves are heated and used as a poultice for sores. Kiwuma imurra malany kiwuta munmunka. ‘They get a lot (of stringybark bark) and then tie it up with Ipomoea vine (making ikpin torches).’ Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine.
2�•�beach grass type with star like flowers. Spinifex longifolius. See:�Wanjikpu�‘Beach Spinifex’. Category:�Grasses, Fire. Anth: Used to cook turtle - the throat of the turtle is cut open, the grass is stuffed in. The throat is closed up and the grass is left in there while it cooks.
3�•�beach grass type with typical elongated grass flower. Category:�Grasses.
murwala���noun. 1�•�pandanus. This term is used for Beach Pandanus and River Pandanus. Pandanus spiralis, Pandanus aquaticus. Variant:�Iwaidja: Murhala. La ja murgala ta amajung tuka kirrwara la tuka kumpil pata arrarrkpi la warramumpik la marryun. Iwulalkungung ja murgala kayirrk la iwumarlkujpangung kirrk. Iwutpangung tuka muwarn ingalangung kirrk. Warrwak la awuntuwunyantung tuka kirrwara la tuka kumpil. ‘They used pandanus when men and women and boys were sick in the back or the chest. They would first cut down the pandanus and then pound it up (the stem). Next they would put it out in the sun to dry it out. Then they would warm their backs and chests with it.’ Nuka ja rrurulng ja kapin yalarranypany. Malany ilijap. malany kinila murgala. ‘The rrurulng is like a centipede. It is small and it eats pandanus.’ Mularn kawani tuka murgala kapa Weyirra la kani Martpalk arlarrarr. Awuntuwung kirrk. ‘Mice live in the pandanus trees on North Goulburn Island, but not here at Martpalk. They killed them all.’ See:�aparlmurrka�‘Stone country Pandanus’; karlngirr�‘pandanus nut’; imiyingkarl�‘prepared pandanus leaves’; karlawijiwiji�‘soft part of pandanus stem’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food, Medicine. Anth: Used to treat joint pain. Preparation: chop centre of trunk, take skin off and chop in half. Beat until soft. Leave to dry for 1-2 hours and heat in fire. Place Pandanus on sore joints.
2�•�pandanus prepared for working baskets. Anth: The pandanus is prepared by soaking it and then splitting the leaves into two parts called kirrwara and imiyingkarl. Kinypani kingilpa murwala. ‘She is sitting splitting pandanus.’ Category:�Tools, women's. See:�kirrwara.
nakurruminyjilang���noun. wild gooseberries. Category:�Plant food, Trees and bushes.
nuwul walmurtja���noun. tree type. Croton habrophyllus ; Murraya paniculata. See:�walmurtja�‘jungle’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
nganyumparrga���noun. 1�•�wild cotton. See:�kapaja�‘plant that makes cotton wool’. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: In the early days people used to collect it for the mission to make pillows.
2�•�pestle that people used to use it to grind food and nuts. See:�nganyjalun�‘wooden plate for grinding’; walurru�‘stringybark tree’. Category:�Tools, women's, Cooking. Anth: It was made from Walurru 'stringbark'.
3�•�camping firestick, torch. See:�mayirli�‘Banksia dentata’. Category:�Tools, men's. Naka mata yungku yiwulakpalunyang awarrangung mantanti. ‘That's the light that they used to take with them when they went to the mainland.’
ngulmarr���noun. 1�•�Wuwarr ceremony ground. Category:�General ritual, Landscape.
2�•�name of an inedible fruit something like pandanus which grows near rivers on the mainland. Category:�Plant food, Trees and bushes.
ngunymuk���noun. Black plum. Tree with black edible fruit with large seed. Grows on beaches. Fruit eaten raw. Pouteria cericea. Variant:�Iwaidja: Ngunymuk. See:�manyjerrukumarlpa�‘Tree with blue-black fruit’. Category:�Plant food, Trees and bushes.
ngurrum���noun. Casuarina tree. Covers any type of Casuarina. Anth: Used for toothache - inner bark is crushed and then boiled and liquid is used as a mouthwash. Casuarina equisetifolia. Variant:�Iwaidja: Kidark. Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine.
walurru���noun. Stringybark tree. Eucalyptus tetrodonta. Variant:�Iwaidja: Walurru. Muka mata walurru ta amajung pata arrarrkpi amajung mangawj la amajung tuka majarr. Mampumangung mawiya mampumanpukpuning. Aminang nungmalal inyakangung kirrk ja kuyak. ‘People would use Stringybark when they had a cough or sore throat. They would get the leaves and chew them. Then they would be alright and all the sickness would leave them.’ Walurru, naka iwumangung ja ikpin. ‘With stringybark bark, they used to take that Ikpin torch.’ Walurru atjaka. ‘He's making a house of Stringybark.’ See:�walurrunyun�‘stand of stringbarks’; wulurru�‘torch’; ikpiny�‘torch’; nganyumparrga�‘pestle made from walurru tree’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine. Anth: Used to treat sores and was used to make shelters. Bark is now used as canvas for bark paintings. It was used in the past to make ikpiny bark torches. Preparation for treating scabies: use red leaves. Crush in pestle and mortar and boil on fire. Dab red liquid on sores when cool. Only found in the dry season.
walurrunnyun���noun. a stand of walurru, stringy bark trees. Category:�Trees and bushes. See:�walurru�‘stringbark’.
warra walurrunnyun���an area of stringy bark trees. Category:�Landscape, Trees and bushes.
warra walurrunnyun���an area of stringy bark trees. Category:�Landscape, Trees and bushes.
walwal���noun. Guettarda. Guettarda speciosa. Variant:�Iwaidja: Wawa. See:�warlwarl�‘could be same one’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine. Anth: A tree with large shiny leaves which grows on the beaches. It has large broad leaves which are used to put food on. The tree makes a good shade tree. They can be used as medicine - applied to the skin.
warlwarl���noun. tree sp. See:�walwal�‘Guettarda’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Calendar plants.
wanta���noun. gum tree endemic to top end. Smooth trunked tree with white flowers. Eucalyptus.arnhemensis, Eucalyptus clavigera. Anth: Used to make oars. Category:�Trees and bushes.
warnmalk���noun. tree type. Thespesia populneoides. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: Used for making spears jalakaraj 'fishing spear', rlama and arrkijpa and also fruit was used as a spinning top.
wardawarda���noun. a thin supple-branched tree. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: From which spear shafts can be made.
wardwardang���noun. Red Bush apple, growing on the beach. Edible fruit tree. Syzygium suborbiculare (beach). Variant:�Iwaidja: Wartawarrang. Wardwardang warlk mata karrkpin. Malany kingatpi ingijalk, wanpirlk la merrk. La mawngku mata karrpani mawngkumawngku. ‘The Wild Apple is a big tree. It has a trunk and fruit and leaves. It makes a good shade for us to sit under.’ See:�Irriyala�‘red Apple (bush form)’; kepkep�‘white apple’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food. Anth: Fruit a pale pink-white colour. Can be eaten.
warwuluj���noun. Possum tucker tree, Cocky apple. Planchonia careya. Variant:�Iwaidja: Wartuludj or Rawurawu. Category:�Trees and bushes, Calendar plants, Plant food. Anth: When tree begin to flower (August to September) it is time for the stingrays and sharks to produce young. This is the time to hunt little sharks, which are the only kind Mawng people eat. Edible green fruit is ready a bit before Christmas. Flower and fruit says that it is time for wampa and wun nuyu.
warral���noun. Red Paperbark. The type of Paperbark tree which grows the largest. It is important in story about the separation of the two Goulburn Islands. Melaleuca sp.(NT Herbarium voucher no. D120590 ). Variant:�Iwaidja: Warral. Mata Warral mata kamurranymin karrkpin. ‘Warral is the one that grows big (of the paperbarks)’. See:�maryawu�‘paperbark tree’. Anth: Canoes used to be made from this type of tree. Category:�Trees and bushes.
wartimin���noun. Wattle species with long thin flowers. Acacia holosericea, Acacia dimidiata. Variant:�Iwaidja: Malakarruk (A. dimidiata). Category:�Trees and bushes, Calendar plants. Anth: Flowering is a sign that green-back turtle (manpiri) and hawskbill turtle (majirnti) have lots of fat. The gum is eaten. It is sweet and tasty a bit like a lolly.
winjulpu���noun. black plum: plant with small black fruit like a plum. Vitex acuminata, Vitex glabrata. Variant:�Iwaidja: Windjulbu. Napalal ta winjulpu ta karrata. ‘The winjulpu is good to eat.’ See:�wanjikpu�‘Beach Spinifex’. Anth: It grows on a bush. The fruit is edible. Emus also eat it. They hit the tree to make the fruit fall and also stamp on it. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food.
wirarrwirarr���noun. Wattle type. Acacia leptocarpa, Acacia auriculiformis. Anth: Similar to karawu but found near the beach in soft soil whereas karawu is found inland. Flowering is a sign of wumulukuk 'cold season' when manpiri 'Green-back turtle' has a lot of fat in it. See:�yalngkarr�‘also possibly A. auriculiformis’; karawu�‘Wattle type’; itpalk�‘Wattle type’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Calendar plants.
wirrka���noun. tree type. Canarium australianium. Category:�Trees and bushes.
wirrurn���noun. a fruit, red in colour. Category:�Plant food, Trees and bushes. Anth: Grows by rivers on the mainland.
wirryalkat���noun. Hakea. Hakea arborescens. See:�manpete�‘a tree which has a yellow inedible fruit’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
wukpuk���noun. 1�•�brain. Syn:�walmukpuk. Category:�Head.
2�•�bush guava tree. Capparis umbonata. Variant:�Iwaidja: Wukbuk. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food.
Wunjikpunjik���noun. shrub type. Salsola kali. Variant:�Iwaidja: Windjigbun. See:�Wanjikpu�‘Spinifex longifolius’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Grasses.
wunkurlurrk���noun. Bush cherry tree, has a red berry, like a cherry which is edible. Flacourtia territorialis. Variant:�Iwaidja: Kardbildjudju. Warranyngiw arrkpana tuku, tuka walmurtja arrapanama wunkurlurrk la arrapanala. ‘Children, we will go over there, in the jungle we will get wild cherries.’ Category:�Plant food, Trees and bushes.
wurakpa���noun. a tree used to stun, poison small fish in the creek. Owenia vernicosa, Owenia sp.. Nukapa ja wurakpa ja kiniwun ja namurarri la muj kawuntuwinypun pata marrik awarray juju pata kamaju. Kampuma wanpirlk la muj mangiri kampartpan tuka panikin. Kayirrk la kawuntuwinypun ke yirrk ja namurarri. ‘The wurakpa tree cures wasting sickness and is also used as for people who are not able to walk around anymore. They get the seeds and also the bark and boil it in a pot. They they wash them (the sick people) and all the sickness goes from them.’ Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine, Toxic plants. Anth: A branch is dragged through the water and the fish come to the surface from where they can be collected to eat. This tree grows near creeks and the seashore.
wurunturr���noun. 1�•�Fern Leaved Grevillea, orange-flower grevillea. Grevillea pteridifolia. Variant:�Iwaidja: Kurrundurr. Category:�Trees and bushes.
2�•�tree that grows in jungle and is not used for anything. Syzygium armstrongii. Variant:�Iwaidja: Wurldurr. Category:�Trees and bushes.
wururrkjanyjuk���noun. Milkwood tree. Alstonia actinophylla?. Variant:�Iwaidja: Yiyarlda or Yangkuyangku. See:�ikirl�‘milkwood tree’; iwururrk�‘succulent, juicy’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
wurrakak���noun. 1�•�Tor Rock. See:�wurakak�‘crow’. Category:�Place names.
2�•�Kapok tree. Bombax ceiba. Variant:�Iwaidja: Wirril. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: tree species with red flowers and 'cotton wool' in seeds. Its flowering tells you that it is wumulukuk time, the cold season.
wurriny���noun. 1�•�Whitewood, Salmon gum, River red gum, Ghost gum. Atalaya hemiglauca; E. alba; E. apodophylla, E.camaldulensis; E. papuana. See:�kujurn�‘Salmon gum’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
2�•�vine type. A climber with a red fruit. Malaisia scandense. Variant:�Iwaidja: Wurri. Category:�Small plants, Dye and fibre plants.
wuyungpuyung���noun. Wattle species. See:�manjarrpirn�‘Wattle species’. Acacia aulacocarpa. Category:�Trees and bushes.
yalngkarr���noun. black wattle. Acacia auriculiformis. See:�wirarrwirarr�‘also possibly A. auriculiformis’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
yarnawu���noun. 1�•�bamboo that grows in freshwater on the mainland. Phragmites karka. Variant:�Iwaidja: Yarnawu. See:�mankole�‘bamboo’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
2�•�a type of spear on the mainland. It has a sharp end, no wire and is light in weight. It is used for hunting kangaroo or wallaby, or for fighting. Category:�Tools, men's.
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