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currawang

currawang is the alternative form of currawong.

Meaning of currawong

Noun

currawong (plural currawongs)

  1. Any of the three species, and several subspecies, of large, mainly black, predatory passerine birds in the genus Strepera, endemic to Australia.
    • Currawongs and cookaburras woke him early.1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 68

Proper noun capitalized: Currawang

Currawang

  1. A locality in the Goulburn Mulwaree council area, Queanbeyan-Palerang council area and the Upper Lachlan council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Forms of currawang

pluralcurrawangs

Questions about currawang

What does currawang mean?
Currawang means a locality in the Goulburn Mulwaree council area, Queanbeyan-Palerang council area and the Upper Lachlan council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
What is currawang the alternative form of?
Currawang is the alternative form of currawong.
What part of speech is currawang?
Currawang is a proper noun.

Words near currawang in the dictionary

  1. currants
  2. curranty
  3. Currarino syndrome
  4. Currarino triad
  5. curratow
  6. currawang
  7. currawangs
  8. Currawarna
  9. Curraweela
  10. currawong
  11. Currawong Beach

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