Brolga
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Brolga is a noun meaning A large grey crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda), of northern and eastern Australia.
Meaning
A large grey crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda), of northern and eastern Australia.
Example Sentences
We wade through the delicate water, the moon spilling on our colourless bodies. Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.
But he did not value Red Ochre simply as a grazing-lease. At times it was to him six hundred square miles where grazing grew and brolgas danced in the painted sunset and emus ran to the silver dawn […].
Word Forms
- brolgas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include coolung, curlew, crane, weelo, jabiru, bungarra.
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