native companion

American  

noun

Ornithology.

1. brolga.

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native companion British  

noun

1. another name for the brolga

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Etymology

Origin of native companion

First recorded in 1810–20

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Example Sentences

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native companion

He said to himself, "That is not a horseman, nor an emu, nor a native companion, nor a swagman, nor a kangaroo."

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane

Then a green swamp; through the tall reeds the native companion, king of cranes, waded majestic; the brilliant porphyry water hen, with scarlet bill and legs, flashed like a sapphire among the emerald green water-sedge.

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley

The same dull, faint, long cry, fell on our ears; but we took no heed of it, for our native companion said it was the signal shout of huntsmen in the mountains.

From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross

Several small swamps were passed during the day, on which ducks and other water-fowl were very numerous, the stately native companion stalking near the margins.

From Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland by Frederick J. Byerley

The woods astonished my native companion Yuranigh; who remarked that they were trees belonging to the sea coast at Sydney.

From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell

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