currawong
English
A currawong
Etymology
Probably from Yagara garrawaŋ, ultimately onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkʌɹəwɒŋ/
Noun
currawong (plural currawongs)
- Any of the three species, and several subspecies, of large, mainly black, predatory passerine birds in the genus Strepera, of the family Artamidae, endemic to Australia.
- 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 68:
- Currawongs and cookaburras woke him early.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 174:
- She has small unblinking eyes like a currawong, turning its head on one side and staring malevolently […].
Derived terms
- black currawong
- black-winged currawong
- brown currawong
- clinking currawong
- grey currawong
- pied currawong
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