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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Yagara bunya bunya, Gabi bunyi, Wakawaka bunyi.
Noun
bunya (plural bunyas)
- The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland.
1887, Maturin Murray Ballou, Under the Southern Cross:The palm takes the place of the eucalyptus to a certain extent, and the woods teem with the bunya-bunya, — a very desirable and ornamental tree, which belongs to the pine family.
- 1993, Philip McLaren, Sweet Water…Stolen Land, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 142:
- Her three favourite bunyah-bunyah nut trees were destroyed last year to make way for more grazing land for sheep and other animals whose cloven hooves destroyed the delicate topsoil and laid bare the earth.
2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 150:Bunya nuts, which come from a conifer in the genus Araucaria, are an example of a plant that fruited so heavily that large stores were set aside.
Etymology 2
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Noun
bunya (plural bunyas)
- (dated, India) A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste.
Anagrams
Phuthi
Etymology
From bu- + -nya.
Noun
búnya class 14
- excrement, feces
Inflection
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