quandong

IPA: kwˈɑndoʊŋ

Any of several species of Santalum:
A small southern Australian shrub (Santalum acuminatum) or its edible red fruit.
The bitter quandong (Santalum murrayanum) or its fruit.
The desert quandong (Santalum lanceolatum) or its fruit.
Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:
blue quandong (Elaeocarpus angustifolius) or its fruit.
Arnhem Land quandong, bony quandong (Elaeocarpus arnhemicus)
Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus bancroftii)
brown quandong (Elaeocarpus coorangooloo)
smooth-leaved quandong, eumundi (Elaeocarpus eumundi)
quandong (Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus)
white quandong, Northern quandong (Elaeocarpus foveolatus)
brush quandong, blue quandong, white quandong, quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis)
mountain quandong (Elaeocarpus holopetalus )
Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus johnsonii)
brown-hearted quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
white quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
tropical quandong (Elaeocarpus largiflorens)
hard quandong (Elaeocarpus obovatus)
Ash quandong (Elaeocarpus reticulatus)
brown quandong, grey quandong (Elaeocarpus ruminatus)
Northern quandong, hard quandong, Northern hard quandong (Elaeocarpus sericopetalus)
hairy quandong (Elaeocarpus williamsianus)
highroot quandong (Aceratium concinnum)
buff guandong, grey quandong (Peripentadenia mearsii)
(Australia slang, now rare) A confidence trickster.

Examples of "quandong" in Sentences

Preliminary assessment of an orchard of quandong seedling trees.
The nutritional potential of the quandong (Santalum acuminatum) kernel.
The quandong (Santalum acuminatum) is widely distributed across Australia's arid inland.
The quandong is reported to be highly resistant to drought, high temperatures, and salinity.
The regent bowerbird is enjoying his morning shower 50 metres up in the top of the quandong, meticulously grooming each gleaming feather.
We passed several quandong trees in full fruit, of which we ate a great quantity; they were the most palatable, and sweetest I have ever eaten.
“Bedyewrie” (XIMENIA AMERICANA) has a sweetish flavour, with a speedy after-taste of bitter almonds, and generally refreshing and thirst-allaying qualities; the shiny blue quandong
Struck with bewilderment, the honey-eaters became dumb, the dismayed doves forgot to coo, the scrub-fowl ceased their chuckling, and three cockatoos flew from the blue-fruited quandong-tree shrieking abominable sarcasms.
Enough to accept that I might never make it to Australia’s outback to sample bush fruits like the red quandong, which is considered a gourmet treat, or the blue quandong, which looks like an ostrich egg painted metallic blue with a glitter gun, or even the silver quandong, which is so far ahead of its time that fruities will only be eating them in the distant future.