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Australia vs Currawong - What's the difference?

australia | currawong |

As nouns the difference between australia and currawong

is that australia is australian while currawong is any of the three species, and several subspecies, of large, mainly black, predatory passerine birds in the genus strepera , of the family artamidae, endemic to australia.

As an adjective australia

is australian.

australia

English

(wikipedia Australia)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.
  • * 1693 : translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of ) titled Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe'' published 1692, translation published in London in 1693. Quoted in ''The Australian Language by Sidney J. Baker, second edition, 1966, chapter XIX, section 1, pages 388-9.
    • This is all that I can have a certain knowledge of as to that side of Australia ...
  • * 1814 , (Matthew Flinders), A Voyage to Terra Australis , volume 1 ( at Project Gutenberg)
    • Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA ; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
  • (geology) The continent of Australia-New Guinea. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.

    • Synonyms

    * (country) Aussieland (colloquial), land down under, New Holland (historial), Oz (colloquial), Terra Australis (historical) * (continent) Meganesia, Sahul

    Hypernyms

    * Antipodes

    Derived terms

    * Aussie * Australasia * Australia Day * Australia Felix * Australian * Australianism * Eastralia * Order of Australia * Westralia

    Related terms

    * Austria * Austrasie

    See also

    * * AU * Aust *

    External links

    * Australia time zones with map and map current local time in Australia. English words suffixed with -ia ----

    currawong

    English

    (wikipedia currawong) (Strepera)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the three species, and several subspecies, of large, mainly black, predatory passerine birds in the genus Strepera , of the family Artamidae, endemic to Australia.
  • * 1983 , Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers , Penguin 2009, p. 68:
    • Currawongs and cookaburras woke him early.
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 174:
  • *:She has small unblinking eyes like a currawong , turning its head on one side and staring malevolently […].

    • Derived terms

    * black currawong * black-winged currawong * brown currawong * clinking currawong * grey currawong * pied currawong