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Glossary
Bahloo, moon. |
Beeargah, hawk. |
Beeleer, black cockatoo. |
Beereeun, prickly lizard. |
Bibbee, woodpecker, bird. |
Bibbil, shiny-leaved box-tree. |
Bilber, a large kind of rat. |
Billai or Billay, crimson-wing parrot. |
Bindeah, a prickle or small thorn. |
Bingah wingul, needle bush, a tall thorny shrub. |
Birrahgnooloo, woman's name, meaning "face like a tomahawk handle." |
Birrahlee, baby. |
Birrahleegul, children. |
Boobootella, the big bunch of feathers at the back of an emu. |
Boolooral, an owl. |
Boomerang, a curved weapon used in hunting and in warfare by the blacks; called Burren by the Narran blacks. |
Bootoolgah, blue-grey crane. |
Borah, a large gathering of blacks where the boys are initiated into the mysteries which make them young men. |
Bou-gou-doo-gahdah, the rain bird. Like the bower or mocking bird. |
Bouyou, legs. |
Bowrah or Bohrah, kangaroo. |
Bralgahs, native companion, bird. |
Bubberah, boomerang that returns. |
Backandee, native cat. |
Buggoo, flying squirrel. |
Bulgahnunnoo, bark-backed. |
Bumble, a fruit-bearing tree, sometimes called wild orange and sometimes wild pomegranate tree. Capparis. |
Bunbundoolooey, brown flock pigeon. |