canajong

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


Tasmanian aboriginal name forthe plants called Pig-faces (q.v.).

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 44:

«Pig-faces. It was the canajong of the Tasmanianaboriginal. The fleshy fruit is eaten raw by the aborigines:the leaves are eaten baked.»