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bugong|ˈbuːgɒŋ|
Also bogong, bougong.
[Native name.]
An Australian noctuid moth, Danais limniace or Agrotis spina, highly prized by the Aborigines as an article of food.
1834G. Bennett Wand. N.S.W. I. 265 It is named the ‘Bugong Mountain’, from the circumstance of multitudes of small moths, called Bugong by the aborigines, congregating at certain months of the year about masses of granite on this and other parts of the range. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn xxxix, To collect and feed on the great grey moths (Bougongs) which are found on the rocks. 1878R. B. Smyth Aborig. Victoria I. 207 The Bugong moths..are greedily devoured by the natives. 1919Nature CIII. 345/2 In Australia at certain seasons a ‘cutworm’ moth, known as the ‘bogong’ or ‘bugong’ (Agrotis infusa), swarms in myriads in many places. 1961R. Park Hole in Hill (1962) ii. 13 The big bogong moths would be coming in. |