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Words for Category: Food

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kuma

raw food

lerəp

manna from scale insects

lil

manna, sweet resin, resin of wattle

mirrkuk, mirkuk

egg (its)

*mirrwan

yam, native dandelong, native daisy,

ngaməty

tea

panem

damper, bread

pathema

to try, to taste food

purrən

grass seed; dry seed of a species of Panicum which was ground and made into flour

purtity

root of reed-mace or Cumbungi

purtuk

tobacco

tilany

dillon-bush, 'wild grape'

tyindyiwa

Salt

wutya-wutya

sweet, sweet resin

*yalam

plant: with edible root, wild carrot,

yawirr

any edible creature

yawirr

flesh

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