| 释义 |
bunya|ˈbʌnjə|
Also bunya-bunya.
[Native name.]
An Australian tree, Araucaria bidwillii, which bears a cone of great size yielding a nutritious vegetable pulp. Also attrib.
1843L. Leichhardt Let. in J. D. Lang Cooksland (1847) 82 The bunya-bunya tree is noble and gigantic. 1844Ibid. 89 The kernel of the Bunya fruit. 1844Port Phillip Patriot 25 July 4/4 The Bunya Bunya or Araucaria on the seeds of which numerous tribes of blacks are accustomed to feed. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 310/2 The Bunya-Bunya pine, found on the mountains of Eastern Australia. 1885R. C. Praed Head Station 179 In dense scrub..where the stately bunya-branches drooped. 1887J. Mathew in Curr Austral. Race III. 161 In laying up a store of bunyas, the Blacks exhibited an unusual foresight. 1934T. Wood Cobbers xvi. 191 Orange groves and bunya nuts. 1957P. White Voss iii. 60 They had gone..as far as the elbow and the bunya bunya. |