Four goannas ran up the tree, and the animals of the bush had preyed so very lavishly on the remains of mortality that the thorax and other parts of the neck, together with various portions of flesh from the body, were missing.
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Goanna
Synonyms for "goanna"
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37 translations across 25 languages.
Adnyamathanha
1 entries- vardna noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Barngarla
1 entries- bardna noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 巨蜥 noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Dharug
1 entries- wirriga noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Eastern Arrernte
1 entries- arlewatyerre noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Finnish
1 entries- goanna noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
French
1 entries- goanna noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Gamilaraay
2 entries- thulii noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- yurrandaali noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Hungarian
1 entries- varánusz noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Italian
1 entries- goanna noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Kaurna
3 entries- kaityita noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- kalta noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- puntunya noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Kriol
1 entries- gowena noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Martuthunira
1 entries- mirntirimarta noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Narungga
2 entries- bardna noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- waribadja noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Ngadjuri
2 entries- budna noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- inawala noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Ngarrindjeri
2 entries- thuyuni noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- tiyungi noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Nukunu
2 entries- partna noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- wiralya noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Nyunga
2 entries- bangara noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- karda noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Pitjantjatjara
4 entries- kurkaṯi noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- miḻpaḻi noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- mulyamaṟu noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- tinka noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Polish
1 entries- waran noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Russian
2 entries- вара́н noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
- гоа́нна noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Spanish
1 entries- goanna noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Wambaya
1 entries- mayinanji noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Wardaman
1 entries- walanja noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Warlpiri
1 entries- kuwana noun (various monitor lizards native to Australia)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Hello! There's a goanna; that's a good sized one; but nothing to the one that I tumbled over when I was coming from the Big River.
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I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines.
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