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murrnong Austral.|ˈmɜːnɒŋ|
Also mirrn'yong, murning.
[Aboriginal name.]
A yellow-flowered native herb, Microseris lanceolata (also called M. scapigera), of the family Compositæ, resembling a dandelion but having clusters of small tuberous roots, formerly used as food by the Aborigines.
1852J. Morgan Life W. Buckley 85 There was another sort of food very useful to me; this was a particular kind of root the natives call Murning—in shape, and size, and flavour, very much resembling the radish. 1878R. Brough Smyth Aborigines Victoria I. 209 Murr-nong or Mirr-n'yong, a kind of yam (Microseris Forsteri), was usually very plentiful and found in the spring and early summer, and was dug out of the earth by the women and children... The root is small, in taste rather sweet, not unpleasant, and perhaps more like a radish than a potato. 1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants of Australia 45 Microseris Forsteri... ‘Murr-nong’ or ‘Mirr n'yong’, of the aboriginals of New South Wales and Victoria. The tubers were largely used as food by the aboriginals. They are sweet and milky, and in flavour resemble the cocoa-nut. 1965Austral. Encycl. II. 494/1 The most familiar native member of the tribe [sc. Compositae] is Microseris lanceolata (syn. M. scapigera), the ‘yam’, ‘yam daisy’, or ‘murrnong’ of the aborigines, who used its tuberous roots for food. |