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parakeelya Austral.|pærəˈkiːljə|
Also parake(e)lia, parakilja, parakylia.
[Aboriginal name.]
An annual or perennial herb belonging to the genus Calandrinia, of the family Portulacaceæ, native to Australia and America and bearing succulent leaves and clusters of reddish flowers. Also attrib.
1898D. W. Carnegie Spinifex & Sand vii. 216 Given ‘parakeelia’ every second night or so a camel would never want to drink at all. 1921Trans. R. Soc. S. Austral. XLV. 11 The common parakeelya at Tarcoola..appears to be this species [sc. Calandrinia polyandra]. 1931I. L. Idriess Lasseter's Last Ride xii. 99 The secret was in the Parakelia grass. In appearance something like ice-plant, its thick leaves were stored with water. 1934[see claytonia]. 1935H. H. Finlayson Red Centre iii. 33 One can only refer to the sprightly purple and yellow flowered succulents, the parakeelia and munyeroo. 1944F. Clune Red Heart 36 Crushed parakelia weed, broken mulga bough..—it was by signs such as these that the trackers deduced the course of the wayfarer. 1959Listener 7 May 785/1 It [sc. the landscape] is ablaze with the scarlet of Sturt's desert pea, with cerise-coloured parakelia. 1965Austral. Encycl. VI. 480/1 Parakeelya (Parakilja), the aboriginal name for several species of fleshy herbs in the genus Calandrinia (family Portulacaceae) which can thrive in the most arid parts of inland Australia. 1967O. Ruhen in Coast to Coast 1965–66 189 A few parakeelya leaves can evoke the blessed relief of flowing saliva. 1972Y. Lovelock Vegetable Bk. i. 193 The aborigines bake the succulent leaves of the parakilja..with bark as a food; the plant was once eaten by the early settlers. |