"Wallaroo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dhoorook. Goola, the native bear, has burrandang for the male and goola dhoorook for the female. A few animals have a distinctive word for the female as well as for the male; thus, the female of the wallaroo is b[a^]wa, and the male goondarw[a^]. Others again have the suffix koual for the male, and [n]oual for the female. The words for "male" and "female" are inflected for number ...
— The Gundungurra Language • R. H. Mathews
... and iron goods, brewing, starch-making, flour-milling and soap-boiling. Adelaide is also the central share market of Australia, for West Australian goldmines, for the silver-mines at Broken Hill, and for the coppermines at Wallaroo, Burra Burra and Moonta; while Port Adelaide, on the neighbouring shore of St Vincent Gulf, ranks as the third in the Commonwealth. Adelaide is the terminus of an extensive railway system, the main line of which ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia |
