banksia man
noun Australian informal
A nickname for the large woody cone produced by several species of banskia shrub: take thongs for walking over the lumpy banksia men...
- The Banksia men are nonetheless identical to the gumnuts in being 'vegetable in origin', which is to say, the product of asexual reproduction.
- Most menacing are the large, dark and hairy Banksia men, whose bodies are covered with 'odd apertures', lip-shaped, vulva-like protuberances.
- Pull off the clawed arms and knobby legs of a Banksia Man and he turns into a fruiting cob.
Origin
Early 20th century: from the name of the characters in the children's story The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (1918) by May Gibbs.
- tongue
- tongue and groove
- tongued
- tongued-and-grooved
- tongue depressor
- tonguefish
- tongue-in-cheek
- tongue-lash
- tongue-lashing
- tongueless
- tongue ring
- tongue stud
- tongues wag
- tongue tie
- tongue-tied
- tongue-twister
- tongue-twisting
- tongue worm
- tonic
- tonically
- tonicity
- tonic sol-fa
- tonic water
- tonic–clonic
- tonification