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bogong

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bo⋅gong

[boh-gawng, -gong]
–noun
a dark-colored Australian moth, Agrostis infusa, used by Aborigines as food.

Origin:
1830–35; earlier bugong, perh. < Ngayawung (Austral Aboriginal language of the lower Murray River, New South Wales) buguŋ
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