| 释义 |
bungarra, n. W. Austral.|ˈbʌŋərə|
[ad. Aboriginal (Nhanta, Carnarvon region, Western Australia) baŋarra.]
= sand goanna s.v. sand n.2 10 b.
1897A. Hayward Along Road to Cue 9 It grieves me sore To hear the batteries roar Where only roamed of yore The mild bungarra. 1924Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush vii. 95 In the spare time they would have little hunts of wallabies or bandicoots or bungarras, or boody-rats. 1961D. Stuart Driven iv. 35 The sight sometimes of a bungarra, the long sleek brown and buff big lizard,..staring down with beady eyes in long reptilian head. 1970Southerly XXX. 218 In some stage of the vast geological ages a brown snake, a bungarra, a dingo travelling, or a boobook owl sounding his double note across the lonely moonlit night. |