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Burdekin|ˈbɜːdɪkɪn|
The name of a river in the eastern part of Queensland, Australia; used attrib. in Burdekin plum, an Australian timber tree (see quots.); Burdekin vine, an Australian vine, Vitis (Cissus) opaca, bearing large edible tubers, also called round yam.
1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 67 Vitis Opaca, ‘Burdekin Vine’, ‘Round Yam’. Ibid. 599 Spondias pleiogyna, ‘Sweet Plum’, or ‘Burdekin Plum’. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 108/1 Other orders..furnish equally serviceable, large-sized timber, particularly the following:..‘Burdekin Plum’ (Pleiogynium Solandri), [etc.]. 1963Austral. Encycl. I. 174/2 Burdekin plum (Pleiogynium cerasiferum) is a very common tree in coastal Queensland from about the Burnett River northwards. |