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1. Aranda, n. and adj. View full entry 1891
...An aboriginal people of central Australia; a member of this people....
2. bandy-bandy, n. View full entry 1926
...The name in Australia of a nocturnal snake, Furina annulata, marked with black and white bands; also called bandy-snake....
3. bangalay, n. View full entry 1884
...Bastard mahogany....
4. bangalow, n. View full entry 1851
...Either of two Australian palms of the genus Archontophœnix, esp. A. cunninghamiana, having feathery leaves. Also attrib....
5. bardy, n. View full entry 1926
...An edible Australian wood-boring grub (Bardistus cibarius) or its larvæ. Used locally in starve the bardies!, an exclamatory phr. of surprise or disgust....
6. barramundi, n. View full entry 1873
...Any of various chiefly freshwater fishes; (now) spec. the Asian seabass, Lates calcarifer....
7. belah, n. View full entry 1862
...The Australian name for various trees, chiefly of the genus Casuarina; also the wood of these trees....
8. bilby, n. View full entry 1903
...An Australian nocturnal burrowing marsupial with blue-grey fur; rabbit-bandicoot. Also attrib., as bilby-hole....
9. billabong, n. View full entry 1865
...A branch or effluent of a river, forming a blind channel, backwater, or stagnant pool....
10. bingy, n. View full entry 1859
...The stomach, belly. Also attrib....
11. bogy | bogey, n.2 View full entry 1849
...A bathe....
12. bombora, n. View full entry 1933
...A dangerous stretch of water where the waves break over a submerged reef of rocks....
13. boobyalla, n. View full entry 1835
...A name in Australia for the Australian wattle....
14. boodie-rat, n. View full entry 1910
...A species of rat-kangaroo. Also called boodie....
15. boomerang, n. View full entry 1827
...An Australian missile weapon: a curved piece of hard wood from two to three feet long, with a sharp edge along the convexity of the curve. It is so made as to...
16. boong, n. View full entry 1941
...An (Australian) Aboriginal; a native of New Guinea; also, any coloured person....
17. boongary, n. View full entry 1889
...The tree-kangaroo of North Queensland, Dendrolagus lumholtzii....
18. bora, n.3 View full entry 1866
...A rite amongst the Aborigines of eastern Australia, constituting the admission of a young person to the rights of manhood....
19. borak, n. View full entry 1845
...Nonsense, humbug; chaff, banter; esp. in to poke (the) borak, to make or poke fun....
20. boree, n.3 View full entry 1878
...A variety of myall, Acacia pendula, found in Eastern Australia....
