a bivalve marine mollusc with anacreous interior, much admired in Tasmania and used forpendants and necklaces, Trigonia margaritacea, Lamarck,of the order Pectinaceae. Wiry Dichelachne G. 228: Fortescue is a terrible pest, lurking among thedebris in the nets and all but invisible, its spinesstanding erect in readiness for the unwary finger. With its bill, which is like a duck's but narrower, itburrows into an ant's-hill, and then with its long, whip-like,sticky tongue, draws the ants into its mouth by hundreds.
an aboriginal word for a stone. 63: Leucosarcia Picata, Wonga-wonga, Aborigines of NewSouth Wales; White-fleshed and Wonga-wonga Pigeon, Colonistsof New South Wales. 318: Only the majestic Kauri tolerated no approaches to hisdignity. >, and other epithets of theTom and Jerry school, are established--the drosspassing here as genuine, even among all ranks.
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