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Etymology 1 n. A bunya pine, (taxlink Araucaria bidwillii species noshow=1). Etymology 2
n. 1 (context dated India English) A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste. 2 (rfv-sense) (context rare English) A (vern: bunya spider).
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Bunya may refer to:
- Bunya, Queensland, a locality in Australia
- Bunya pine, a native Australian tree also known as Araucaria bidwillii
- Bunya Mountains, a mountain range
- Bunya, the Hungarian name for the Romanian village of Bunea Mare, Făget
Usage examples of "bunya".
Above their heads, the bustling bunyas reared some three hundred feet into the sky, seeming to topple against a backdrop of scudding cloudlets.
Thorn stepped silently from the dusky trees, holding a brace of bunya cones.
As the travelers picked around the fallen boughs of the bunya pine, collecting as many nuts as they could cram into the pouches, the tinkling of a million miniature bells came over the hills.
Rummaging in the food-pouches, they found little more than bunya nuts, with a few withered lillypilly berries, overripe apple-berries, and crumbled mushrooms.