Besides its botanical use,the word is applied in Australia to a small kangaroo,the Paddy-melon (q. 214: Did my reader ever hear of the Bunyip (fearful name to theaboriginal native!) a sort of `half-horse, half-alligator,'haunting the wide rushy swamps and lagoons of the interior? 1859. There is a Tasmanianspecies, Veronica formosa, R. See Whiting,quotation 1882.
Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. Maori phrase used by English inthe North Island of New Zealand, and meaning Health to you! A private lette the deliberate reply is, `Taihoa'. )
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