kurrajong

American  

[kur-uh-jong] / ˈkɜr əˌdʒɒŋ /

Also currajong;

noun

1. an Australian bottle tree, Brachychiton populneus, having showy yellowish-white, bell-shaped flowers, grown as an ornamental.

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kurrajong British  

/ ˈkʌrəˌdʒɒŋ /

noun

1. any of various Australian trees or shrubs, esp Brachychiton populneum, a sterculiaceous tree that yields a tough durable fibre

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Etymology

Origin of kurrajong

First recorded in 1820–25; < Dharuk ga-ra-jun “fishing line,” made from the bark of such trees, and perhaps misinterpreted as the name of the tree

Example Sentences

You know I left my forest home full loth, And those weird ways I knew so well and long, Dishevelled with their sloping sidelong growth Of twisted thorn and kurrajong.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

So, putting the camels down in the welcome shade of a kurrajong, I lay down beside them and was presently relieved by the sound of a revolver-shot, our signal that water was found.

From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford

They stood beneath the dense shade of a splendid kurrajong, and lazily flicked the flies off themselves while Frank Hawden held the reins and waited for me.

From My Brilliant Career by Franklin, Miles

Now it was an old overhanging limb that had arched over the road since we were boys; then there was a rock with a big kurrajong tree growing near it.

From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Boldrewood, Rolf