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Eucalypteae is a large tribe of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae; members of this tribe are known as eucalypts. [1] [2] In Australia the genera Angophora, Corymbia, and Eucalyptus are commonly known as gum trees, for the sticky substance that exudes from the trunk of some species. [3]
Girramay territory has trees with a variety of bark that could be beaten into a cloth to fashion a "rain shield" and neighbouring tribes such as the Dyirbal and Ngajanji therefore called this device a keramai, their pronunciation of the Girramay ethnonym. [a] wila (cakes of brown walnut) [4]
Early versions of the map also divided Australia into 18 regions (Southwest, Northwest, Desert, Kimberley, Fitzmaurice, North, Arnhem, Gulf, West Cape, Torres Strait, East, Rainforest, Northeast, Eyre, Riverine, Southeast, Spencer and Tasmania); the region of the tribes which are depicted in this map are shown in the last column of this table.
According to this reference, the tribes divided themselves into two classes, the Piindri (tree climbers) and the Kathoongal (fishermen), and that according to their mythological lore the Earth had been once devastated and had to be repopulated by people from the Moon.
The name Australia (pronounced / ə ˈ s t r eɪ l i ə / in Australian English) [29] is derived from the Latin Terra Australis Incognita (' unknown southern land '), a name used for a hypothetical continent in the Southern Hemisphere since ancient times. [30] Several 16th-century cartographers used the word Australia on maps, but not to ...
Eucalypt is any woody plant with capsule fruiting bodies belonging to one of seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australia: Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora, Stockwellia, Allosyncarpia, Eucalyptopsis and Arillastrum. [1] In Australia, they are commonly known as gum trees or stringybarks. [2]
A species of angophora apple tree, tapped for its tannin-rich kino, formed part of the Ngarabul pharmacopoeia. [6] The gum of Eucalyptus robusta was also used medicinally. . The leaves of the manna gum were used to treat ophthalmic maladies such as "bad e
Boanawari ('bat people', used of eastern tribes who did not engage in circumcision rights, and feared the N gadjuri's proselytization for the practice) Burra Burra (a name for one of the Ngadjuri hordes) Doora; Eeleeree; Eura (this is generic for several tribes in which the Ngadjuri were included) Hilleri, Hillary; Manu, Monnoo, Manuley