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Aboriginal vs Lubra - What's the difference?

aboriginal | lubra |

As nouns the difference between aboriginal and lubra

is that aboriginal is an animal or plant native to a region while lubra is a female Aboriginal Australian.

As an adjective aboriginal

is first according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.

As a proper noun Aboriginal

is any of the native languages spoken by Australian aborigines.

aboriginal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
  • * 1814 , , The Excursion , Longman et al. (publishers), [http://books.google.com/books?id=T18JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=aboriginal page 277]:
    • Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
  • Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
  • (Aboriginal)

    • Synonyms

    * (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primeval

    Derived terms

    * aboriginality * aboriginally

    Related terms

    * aborigine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal or plant native to a region.
  • * Charles Darwin
    • It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
  • (Aboriginal)

    • Usage notes

    * Using uncapitalized aboriginal to refer to people or anything associated with people may cause offence. * In Canada, style manuals recommend against using the noun Aboriginal for a person or people. * See also the usage notes under Aboriginal .

    References

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    lubra

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, now racially offensive) A female Aboriginal Australian.
  • * 1988 , Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked ,
    • We went into the house and Roy called out, “Alice, boil ’im billy, make some tea,” and a few minutes later a comely young lubra appeared, a huge teapot in one hand and a plate with a big brownie on it.
  • * 2001 , Robert Denis Whittle One Skin For An Overlander , page 166,
    • The lubras' were standing up now, in a tight little circle, with their fighting sticks raised. There was another burst of argument and then first one ' lubra , then another struck her opponent a blow on the head.
  • * 2003 , Les Hughes, Henry Mundy: A Young Australian Pioneer , page 94,
    • As I have mentioned before, Lubra Creek derived its name from a wanton slaughter of several lubras' by an enraged band of squatters whose sheep had been stolen, slaughtered and eaten by the blacks. It was usual when anything of that kind happened to band together for the squatter, and hunt for the delinquents and shoot down the first blacks they caught innocent or guilty. In the case of the Lubra Creek tragedy, it appears they could not drop across any black fellows and finding the ' lubras hidden in the shrub, ruthlessly shot them down.