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Australia vs Irukandji - What's the difference?

australia | irukandji |

As proper nouns the difference between australia and irukandji

is that australia is a country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia while Irukandji is an Aboriginal tribe of northeastern Australia, also known as the Yirrganydji

As a noun Irukandji is

a deadly jellyfish found in northern Australia, Carukia barnesi.

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

    See also

    * * AU * Aust *

    irukandji

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An Aboriginal tribe of northeastern Australia, also known as the
  • Noun

  • (en noun)
  • A deadly jellyfish found in northern Australia, Carukia barnesi .
  • Any box jellyfish with a sting that produces Irukandji syndrome.
  • Derived terms

    * irukandji syndrome

    See also

    * * Article which discusses the development of the 2nd sense * Irukandji JellyFish