Example sentences for: kurrajong

How can you use “kurrajong” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When it came to plants, the same sort of criteria were observed: the waratah, a strikingly beautiful red flower which has become the floral emblem of New South Wales, was soon identified, as were the burrawang , a palmlike plant very common in the coastal forests, and the kurrajong , a plant that yields a useful fibre.

  • On the other there were new names, borrowings from Aboriginal languages, like boobook, dingo, koala, kurrajong, wallaby, wallaroo, waratah, and wombat, all from Dharuk (the Sydney language); descriptive names like blackbutt, bottlebrush, duckbill, flooded gum, and gumtree; or popular adoptions of scientific names like banksia, callistemon, casuarina, boronia, eucalyptus, and platypus.


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