kurrajong

noun

1. (Australia)Any of a number of species of tree or shrub in the genus Brachychiton.

   “My young friend, Master Keith McKeown, now finds this beetle under the stones about the roots of the kurrajong at Wagga, and also sheltering during the winter in the seed-pods on the trees.”

   “From the mallee and kurrajong trees came a rowdy chatter of parakeets, while queer soughing of air-currents came from the valley top.”

   “The black kurrajong has a fibrous bark that Aboriginal artefact-makers used as a raw material to make string for their lines and carry-bags.”

   “The groves of Kurrajongs along the saddle of Mount Majura were founded last century.”

2. (Australia)A peanut tree, Sterculia quadrifida, native to eastern coastal Australia; a red- or orange-fruited kurrajong.

name

1. A town in the Hawkesbury council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.