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desert raisin

desert raisin noun: kutjera.

Noun

desert raisin (plural desert raisins)

  1. kutjera
    • The botanist Peter Latz of Alice Springs in the arid center of the continent, who grew up with and learned firestick tactics from the Arrernte Aborigines, estimates that they got about one-third of their food from firestick management of the land. He personally fancies a kind of desert raisin, a...2002 April 8, Alfred W. Crosby, Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 47

Forms of desert raisin

pluraldesert raisins

Questions about desert raisin

What does desert raisin mean?
Desert raisin means kutjera.
What part of speech is desert raisin?
Desert raisin is a noun.
What is the plural of desert raisin?
The plural of desert raisin is desert raisins.

Words near desert raisin in the dictionary

  1. desert peas
  2. desert physa
  3. desert physae
  4. desert physas
  5. desert principle
  6. desert raisin
  7. desert rat
  8. desert rats
  9. desert rheumatism
  10. desert rock
  11. desert rose

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