warrener

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

n.


a name applied by Tasmanianchildren to the larger specimens of the shells called Mariners (q.v.). The name is an adaptation,by the law of Hobson-Jobson, from a Tasmanian aboriginal word, Yawarrenah, given by Milligan (`Vocabulary,' 1890), asused by tribes, from Oyster Bay to Pittwater, for the ear-shell( Haliotis). The name has thus passed from shell toshell, and in its English application has passed on also tothe marine shell, Turbo undulatus.

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