From somewhere close by, a kurrajong warbled, and another joined in chorus. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Nitrogen metabolism and digestibility studies with Merino sheep given kurrajong (Brachychiton populneum), mulga (Acacia aneura) and native grass. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
The sheets of bark, having holes pierced through each in pairs, were then tied on the rafters with cords twisted of the inner rind of the kurrajong tree. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
I camp beneath a kurrajong with three good cattle-men. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for Kids] Reference
Even the kurrajong (Brachychiton discolor) couldn't resist the heat. From Wordnik.com. [A Snail's Eye View] Reference
Now it was an old overhanging limb that had arched over the road since we were boys; then there was a rock with a big kurrajong tree growing near it. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields] Reference
They stood beneath the dense shade of a splendid kurrajong, and lazily flicked the flies off themselves while Frank Hawden held the reins and waited for me. From Wordnik.com. [My Brilliant Career] Reference
Taking with me a bountiful supply of figs, apricots, and mulberries, I laid myself out for a deal of enjoyment in the cool dense shade under the leafy kurrajong - and cedar-trees. From Wordnik.com. [My Brilliant Career] Reference
I was trying to find out what's non-nom-noming its way through my kurrajong (Brachychiton) sapling yesterday but failed to locate anything even remotely herbivorous among the foliage. From Wordnik.com. [A Snail's Eye View] Reference
(one-inch mesh), preferably from the bark of one of the fig-trees or the brown kurrajong, tightly stretched on two pieces of lawyer-cane each bent to form the half of an irregular ellipse. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
It is made of fine twine (one-inch mesh), preferably from the bark of one of the fig-trees or the brown kurrajong, tightly stretched on two pieces of lawyer-cane each bent to form the half of an irregular ellipse. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Several kinds of trees new to me were growing in the valleys, one, a very pretty crimson-blossomed tree, not unlike a kurrajong in size, shape, and character of the wood, but with this difference, in leaf, that its leaves were divided into two points, whilst the kurrajong has three. From Wordnik.com. [Spinifex and Sand] Reference
A kurrajong, I lay down beside them and was presently relieved by the sound of a revolver-shot, our signal that water was found. From Wordnik.com. [Spinifex and Sand] Reference
Where mountain ash and kurrajong grew wide. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
The brown kurrajong. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
A big kurrajong tree growing near it. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery Under Arms] Reference
On the other there were new names, borrowings from Aboriginal languages, like boobook, dingo, koala, kurrajong, wallaby, wallaroo, waratah, and wombat, all from Dharuk (the Sydney language); descriptive names like blackbutt, bottlebrush, duckbill, flooded gum, and gumtree; or popular adoptions of scientific names like banksia, callistemon, casuarina, boronia, eucalyptus, and platypus. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
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