cudgerie

English

Etymology

Probably from Bandjalang gajari.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkadʒəɹi/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌdʒəɹi/

Noun

cudgerie

1. (Australia) A tall rainforest tree of eastern Australia (Sloanea australis: Oxalidales).
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 104:

     We would want mountain ash or white ash for spars; blue fig for struts; cudgerie for the fuselage.

2. (Australia) silver ash, bumpy ash (Flindersia schottiana), a tree of Queensland.

Synonyms

• (Sloanea australis): maiden's blush, blush alder, blush carrabeen, blush carrobean
• (Flindersia schottiana): flindosy-beech, floppy-leaf-ash, mountain-ash, northern silver-ash, southern silver-ash

References

• cudgerie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sloanea+australis at The Plant List