murnongn.
/ˈməːnɒŋ/, U.S. /ˈmərˌnɑŋ/, Australian English /ˈmɜːnɔŋ/ Australian.
The plant Microseris scapigera (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), having a yellow flower resembling a dandelion; the edible tuberous root of this plant.
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1836 Bent's News (Hobart, Austral.) 3 Sept. 3 Pigs..feed well on the ‘murnung’, a root on which the natives here often subsist.
1852 J. Morgan Life W. Buckley 85 There was another sort of food very useful to me; this was a particular kind of root the natives call Murning—in shape, and size, and flavour, very much resembling the radish.
1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria I. 209 Murr-nong or Mirr-n'yong, a kind of yam (Microseris Forsteri), was usually very plentiful and found in the spring and early summer.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 45 Microseris Forsteri... ‘Murr-nong’ or ‘Mirr n'yong’, of the aboriginals of New South Wales and Victoria. The tubers were largely used as food by the aboriginals.
1922 C. Daley Early Squatting Days 5 Murnong..is about the size of the upper half of a small carrot, a milky juice exudes through the skin, [etc.].
1965 Austral. Encycl. II. 494/1 The most familiar native member of the tribe [sc. Compositae] is Microseris lanceolata (syn. M. scapigera), the ‘yam’, ‘yam daisy’, or ‘murrnong’ of the aborigines, who used its tuberous roots for food.
1983 J. Flood Archeol. of Dreamtime 202 The men could have existed on..the region's one abundant plant food, the daisy yam or mirr'n-yong (Microseris scapigera).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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