bogong

bogong
/boh"gawng, -gong/, n.
a dark-colored Australian moth, Agrostis infusa, used by Aborigines as food.
[1830-35; earlier bugong, perh. < Ngayawung (Austral Aboriginal language of the lower Murray River, New South Wales) bugun]

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