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bunyah-bunyah

bunyah-bunyah is the alternative form of bunya.

Meaning of bunya

Noun (1)

bunya (plural bunyas)

  1. The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland.
    • The palm takes the place of the eucalyptus to a certain extent, and the woods teem with the bunya-bunya, — a very desirable and ornamental tree, which belongs to the pine family.1887, Maturin Murray Ballou, Under the Southern Cross

Noun (2)

bunya (plural bunyas)

  1. (India, dated) A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste.

Noun (3)

bunya (plural bunyas)

  1. A traditional Kanak and Ni-Vanuatu dish
    Synonyms:
    bougna, bunia

Questions about bunyah-bunyah

What is bunyah-bunyah the alternative form of?
Bunyah-bunyah is the alternative form of bunya.

Words near bunyah-bunyah in the dictionary

  1. Bunun
  2. bunya
  3. bunya pine
  4. bunya pines
  5. bunyah
  6. bunyah-bunyah
  7. bunyahs
  8. bunyak
  9. bunyaks
  10. Bunyan
  11. Bunyanesque

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bunyah-bunyah (page history and authors); bunya (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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