Definition & Meaning | English word BURRAWANG
BURRAWANG
Definitions of BURRAWANG
- (AU) Any of various cycads of the genera Macrozamia and Cycas, especially Macrozamia communis, a tree with fronds yielding edible nuts. [from 18th c.]
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using BURRAWANG in a Sentence
- Burrawang Street - Burrawang is the common name for the species Macrozamia communis, an Australian cycad found on the east coast of New South Wales.
- The burrawang has the most extensive distribution of any cycad in New South Wales and is found along the coast from the district around Armidale, New South Wales to Bega 700 km south and on the coastal slopes of the Great Dividing Range with some instances on the inland slopes of the range; as far west as the Mudgee district.
- Grug was originally modelled after the fallen top of a Burrawang tree (Macrozamia communis), but more closely resembles a grass tree (Xanthorrhoea), or a small, striped haystack.
- The name of the village, Channon, comes from a local Aboriginal term for the Burrawang palm, having been derived from the word 'dganon' (from the Yugambeh–Bundjalung languages), which is a type of cycad that proliferates along the ridgelines in the area.
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