131: Ake, a small tree, 6 to 12 feet high. From the Greek zowstaer, a girdle,`anything that goes round like a girdle' (`L. -peel; but if rashlytasted an hour before it is ripe, the poroporo is an alum pillflavoured with strychnine. Captain Cook observed it on several parts of thecoast.
(4) To search about for anything, to rummage. 298: The painted quail, and the brush quail, the largest ofAustralian gamebirds, I believe, whirred away from beneaththeir horses' feet. The name Snapper is older than thesettlement of Australia, but it is not used for the same fish. 136: Four species of Sitilla [sic] which, except that theydo not lay their eggs in hollow trees, bear some resemblance toour nuthatch.
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