Quandong

/ˈkwandɒŋ/ name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several species of Santalum:; A small southern Australian shrub (Santalum acuminatum) or its edible red fruit.
  2. 2
    red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several species of Santalum:; bitter quandong (Santalum murrayanum) or its fruit.
  4. 4
    Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit wordnet
  5. 5
    Any of several species of Santalum:; desert quandong (Santalum lanceolatum) or its fruit.
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  1. 6
    the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree wordnet
  2. 7
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; blue quandong (Elaeocarpus angustifolius) or its fruit.
  3. 8
    Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed wordnet
  4. 9
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; Arnhem Land quandong, bony quandong (Elaeocarpus arnhemicus)
  5. 10
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus bancroftii)
  6. 11
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; brown quandong (Elaeocarpus coorangooloo)
  7. 12
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; smooth-leaved quandong, eumundi (Elaeocarpus eumundi)
  8. 13
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; quandong (Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus)
  9. 14
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; white quandong, Northern quandong (Elaeocarpus foveolatus)
  10. 15
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; brush quandong, blue quandong, white quandong, quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis)
  11. 16
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; mountain quandong (Elaeocarpus holopetalus )
  12. 17
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus johnsonii)
  13. 18
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; brown-hearted quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
  14. 19
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; white quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
  15. 20
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; tropical quandong (Elaeocarpus largiflorens)
  16. 21
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; hard quandong (Elaeocarpus obovatus)
  17. 22
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; Ash quandong (Elaeocarpus reticulatus)
  18. 23
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; brown quandong, grey quandong (Elaeocarpus ruminatus)
  19. 24
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; Northern quandong, hard quandong, Northern hard quandong (Elaeocarpus sericopetalus)
  20. 25
    Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:; hairy quandong (Elaeocarpus williamsianus)
  21. 26
    highroot quandong (Aceratium concinnum)
  22. 27
    buff guandong, grey quandong (Peripentadenia mearsii)
  23. 28
    A confidence trickster. Australia, archaic, slang

    "‘A spieler,’ Leah gently loosened the painful crab hold of the boy's hand. ‘[…] A trickster. A quandong. A ripperty man. A con-man.’"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A locality in the City of Wyndham, Victoria, Australia

Synonyms

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native peachquandong treeblue figbrisbane quandongdesert peachdesert quandong tree

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"‘A spieler,’ Leah gently loosened the painful crab hold of the boy's hand. ‘[…] A trickster. A quandong. A ripperty man. A con-man.’"

Etymology

From Wiradjuri guwandhang.

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