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dugite

UK/ˈd(j)uːɡʌɪt/

dugite noun: pseudonaja affinis, a highly venomous snake of southwest Australia.

Noun

dugite (plural dugites)

  1. Pseudonaja affinis, a highly venomous snake of southwest Australia.
    • A small dugite crawled across the lawn from the golf links.1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 150
    • Dugites and bobtails rustled out there, and in the evenings, bronzed by the sun as it dunked into the sea, whole mobs of kangaroos lined the ridge […].1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 19

Forms of dugite

pluraldugites

Origin of dugite

From Nyunga.

Questions about dugite

What does dugite mean?
Dugite means pseudonaja affinis, a highly venomous snake of southwest Australia.
What part of speech is dugite?
Dugite is a noun.
How do you pronounce dugite?
Dugite is pronounced /ˈd(j)uːɡʌɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of dugite?
The plural of dugite is dugites.

Words near dugite in the dictionary

  1. Dugin
  2. Duginism
  3. Duginist
  4. Duginists
  5. Dugins
  6. dugite
  7. dugites
  8. Dugla
  9. duglas
  10. dugnad
  11. dugnads

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