cudgerie

English

Etymology

Probably from Bandjalang gajari.

Pronunciation

Noun

cudgerie

  1. (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.
  2. (Australia) silver ash, bumpy ash (Flindersia schottiana), a tree of Queensland.

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