nutwood
- Scientific Name
- Terminalia grandiflora
- Category
- Plants
A tree (7-15m) with pendulous branchlets and green-yellow inflorescences which appear in the dry season.
An-bardderre an-worrkuyengkuyeng.
The nutwood tree has very long leaves.
Yikabeh burluddak arri-kornmang arri-djedme arri-lowkmang. Bardderre, an-bardderre kunukka ka-rri.
Sometimes we make spear-thrower handles from stringybark or we carve them from strips of wood taken from nutwood trees.
Bararrkno arri-marnbuni dadken, an-bardderre an-yahwurd arri-bakkeyi arri-marnbuni.
We used to make axe handles from nutwood, breaking off a small piece and working it.
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