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cunjevoi Austral.|ˈkʌndʒɪvɔɪ|
[Native name.]
1. The popular name for the green arum or spoon lily, Alocasia macrorrhiza.
1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 165 Colocasia macrorrhiza..Alocasia macrorrhiza..‘Pitchu’ of the aboriginals of the Burnett River, Queensland; ‘Cunjevoi’ of those of South Queensland. 1930Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Nov. 26/3 The cunjevoi..grows in dense clumps on river banks and in moist brush forests of eastern and tropical Australia. 1964Mod. Encycl. Austral. & N.Z. 290/1 Cunjevoi or Spoon lily... Its bulbs (normally poisonous) were cooked in a special way and eaten by aborigines. 1965Austral. Encycl. I. 221/1 One of the commonest Australian species is the cunjevoi,..whose large fleshy rhizomes extend for several feet over the surface of the ground.
2. (Also -boi, -boy.) A common ascidian, the sea-squirt (see quots.). Abbrev. cunjie.
[1821S. Leigh in W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng. (1966) 121 Conguwa, a kind of living fungus, which at certain Seasons they detach from the Rocks on the Sea Shore.] 1911A. E. Mack Bush Days 109 Down at the sea's edge grew the cunje-boy, brown and red, upon the rocks. 1925Illustr. Austral Encycl. I. 342/1 Cunjevoi, popular name of a polyp (Cynthia praeputialis) common on the Australian coasts. It is often used as a bait for fishing. 1945Sun (Sydney) 15 May, The organism known to local fishermen as congeboy, cungevoi, or congevoi. 1960W. J. Dakin et. al. Austral. Seashores (rev. ed.) xviii. 341 The cunjevoi itself..prefers the outermost rocks facing the ocean. 1965Austral. Encycl. I. 274/2 Pyura stolonifera (cunjevoi) is occasionally used as bait but is never marketed as such. Ibid. III. 145/2 Cunjevoi,..the name used in New South Wales for the ascidian or sea-squirt. Ibid., A simple ascidian of the cunjevoi type may also be seen growing on wharf-piles or other harbour installations. 1966Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) xiv. 302 Cunjie, a cunjevoi, used for bait. |