kurrajong

English

From Dharug garrajung (“fishing line”), from the use made of the bark.

kurrajong (plural kurrajongs)

(Australia) Any of a number of species of tree or shrub in the genus Brachychiton.
- 1906, Henry Charles Lennox Anderson, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, volume 16:
  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.
- 2008, Philip A. Clarke, Aboriginal Plant Collectors: Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century, page 50:
  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.
- 2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 90:
  The groves of Kurrajongs along the saddle of Mount Majura were founded last century.
(Australia) A peanut tree, Sterculia quadrifida, native to eastern coastal Australia; a red- or orange-fruited kurrajong.