Trees, plants | |
mu-guyiya | dogs balls, Grewia retusifolia |
mu-burpba | (1) rifle; (2) lily |
?-nurritj | a green aquatic weed |
mu-jukgul | Acacia holosericea. Spear wood in spring country. |
gu-worrongomoloh | Alloteropsis semialata |
gu-munhmunh | (any kind of) grass for making fire (with firestick), kindling |
wirriyel | aquatic weed |
mu-gutjjung | big lily root |
gu-bindiyayi | bindi-eye (Kriol loan) |
mu-yawok | bitter, cheeky yam cf. Jawoyn yawk, Ngalkbon yawok |
mu-wom | black plum |
mu-baltjja | ?black plum (syn. with mu-wom) |
mu-garratjji | black spinifex gum, used for medicine (boiled and then bogey) |
gu-dumuluh | bloodwood |
mu-murrpbunh | broad-leafed Terminalia species |
gu-birnday | cane grass |
mu-makgurr | cold weather, middle of cold season |
mu-mululuk | conkerberry |
gu-mutjju | coolibah |
?-beje? | coolibah? |
gu-giriba | creeper sp., like baramulk, largurrja. ?Kriol, ‘yellawan’ (poss. a loan from ‘creeper’) |
mu-yerrel | creeper, used for arm decorations, fishing. Lawyer vine. |
gu-bardiguluh | E. Ferruginea (?) |
mu-warlanh | E. tectifica |
mu-laway | Eleocharis dulcis (sedge) |
gu?-ngabak | Eucalyptus grandifolia |
?-marrangarr | firestick tree? |
mu-ngelh | freshwater mangrove |
mu-bernberreny | ghost gum |
gu?-boromon | grass (hill country spinifex?) |
mu-boy | grass species |
jawelk | grass species |
mu-ngutjji | ‘greenplum’ |
gu-darrawh | gum tree species, hill country syn. with bernberreny (?Eucalyptus papuana) |
mu-malbah | ironwood |
mu-bulgut | kurrajong |
mu-gerr | kurrajong |
mu-jurluh | lancewood |
?-barrjaray | large paperbark species, found at Flying Fox Ck. light coloured |
mu-dubal | Leichhardt tree |
mu-gurninyarra | ‘like Leichhardt tree but with a red fruit’ Poss. Ficus racemosa. Said to be syn. of mu-warnwarn |
gu-ngalkngalk | lily species (Syn. jawhjawh) |
mu-barnarrh | marble tree |
mu-rokga | Pandanus spiralis |
gu-got | paperbark (apparently generic, possible focus on papery bark rather than trees) |
mu-bulpbul | paperbark sp. |
gu-jirdak | paperbark cooliman |
gu-mardu | ?paperbark species or cooliman |
gu-bitjjurrk | plat potato |
gu-galangarndah | plat potato species |
gu-jajak | prob. fan palm |
mu-jorrowh | quinine bush |
gu-derreneh | ‘red apple’, Syzygium sp. |
gu-ngolonggoh | river red gum |
gu-largurrja | ?same as baramulk, ?loan from Marra |
gu-majaburrgah | Securinega species |
?-wirn.girr | shitwood, for making bush pipes |
mu-jupbih | shrub |
mu-wartbar | Probably Grevillea pteridifolia |
mu-nyamnyam | ?sp. of lily |
mu-boroh | ?sp. of lily, spring country |
gu-barrakgarlh | bamboo spear or tree species used for spear shafts. (Spec. blacksoil country, c.f. jukgul) Probably Sesbania cannabina |
mu-jalng | spinifex |
mu-bilat | splinter |
gu-ngatdum | stick devoid of foliage |
mu-jitjbu | stringybark |
gu-gardaykga | stringybark |
mu-danbarr | “stringybark” |
gu-wurray | tall grass species |
mu-warnwarn | Terminalia grandiflora |
gu-mirnitjja | thick scrub, poss. Cathormion umbellatum |
gu-birdipbirdi | ti tree |
mu-gulukgulun | ti tree (melaleuca sp.), small leaves, used for medicine, poss. Melaleuca acacioides |
mu-jiliwirn | ?Capparis umbonata |
mu-jorne | Terminalia canescens |
buyuh (or bujuh) | tree sp. found growing at Flying Fox Ck. Used for woomeras, spears. |
gu-gunungurk | tree with long leaves, has food for humans and animals |
mu-linyman | Triglochin procera |
gu-wurrk | unidentified grass species. Possibly just refers to ‘grass for burnoff’ |
mu-jilarra | prob. Gutta percha: Excaecaria parvifolia, same name in Ngandi, Ritharrngu |
mu-bulpbul | var. of Melaleuca leucadendron |
?-durrgu | very large paperbark sp. (found at Flying Fox Ck.) |
gu-lungurrwa | Vigna vexillata |
mu-birlal | waterlily leaf |
mu-jatdam | waterlily species |
gu-/mu-bilabila | wattle tree, has yellow flower (at Flying Fox creek) |
mu-balarra | wattle tree, yellow flowers |
mu-borogorrh | ‘whistling tree’ Casuarina or Allocasuarina sp. |
gu-gare | ?whitegum |
mu-gurrur | wild ‘bush’ species of lily root (green flower) , possibly Nymphaea violacea |
gu-morrortdinh | Merlan: wild cassava, my informants: wild banana Leichhardtia australis |
gu-jiwurru | ‘wild cassava’ |
gu-baramulk | ?wild cucumber, lives along the river ‘redwan’. Poss. baramurrk |
gu-gayabam | ‘wild orange’ ?Capparis umbonata |
mu-ngambirnhngambirnh | wild potato species |
gu-mirdark | woodchips |
gu-man.gardah | woollybutt |
mu-jimit | (?woolybark) ?Planchonella spp. |
jarrwirliwirli | (woolybark?) yellow tree with red flowers |
mu-yorndo | yam sp. long |