Austral English / A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

by Edward Ellis Morris

<hw>Pomegranate, Native</hw>, <i>n</i>. another name for the <i>Caper-tree</i>(q.v.).

<hw>Pomegranate, Small Native</hw>, <i>n</i>. another name for the <i>Native Orange</i>. See <i>Orange</i>.

<hw>Pongo</hw>, <i>n</i>. aboriginal name for the <i>Flying-Squirrel</i> (q.v.).

1888. Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arms,' p. 149:

"Then an old 'possum would sing out, or a black-furred flying-squirrel—pongos, the blacks call `em—would come sailing down from the top of an ironbark tree, with all his stern sails spread, as the sailors say, and into the branches of another, looking as big as an eagle-hawk."

<hw>Poor-Soldier</hw>, or <hw>Soldier-Bird</hw> (q.v.), <i>n</i>. another name for the <i>Friar-bird</i> (q.v.), and so named from its cry.

<hw>Poplar</hw>, <i>n</i>. In Queensland, a timber-tree, <i>Carumbium populifolium</i>, Reinw., <i>N.O. Euphorbiaceae</i>. In Central Australia, the <i>Radish-tree</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Poplar-Box</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Box</i>.

<hw>Poplar-leaved Gum</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Gum</i>.

<hw>Porangi</hw>, <i>adj</i>. Maori word for <i>sad, sorry</i>, or <i>sick</i>; <i>cranky</i>.