Insects
alwirrgukalwirrguk���noun. a parasite that grows on a tree trunk and is used as a poultice. Category:�Insects.
ilarranypany���noun. 1�•�centipede. Category:�Insects.
2�•�shape of small spiral starter piece of a basket, yangali. This shape is a spiral like muki but is elongated. Anth: The name refers only to the initial few layers of coils that are made to start off the basket. See:�muki�‘round starter spiral for basket’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
imilirr���noun. head lice eggs. See:�kurrpung�‘head lice (generic)’; jerniman�‘dog fleas’. Category:�Insects.
imurtpurrk���noun. worm. Category:�Insects.
itpiyitpi���noun. grasshopper. See:�wungumpuli yitpiyitpi�‘younger teenage girl’. Category:�Insects. Note: Yitpiyitpi song on Le Brun Holmes record. Seems to be Feminine due to some mythological associations. See also Berndt and Berndt (1970) for discussion and transcription of some itpiyitpi songs
jerniman���noun. fleas. See:�imilirr�‘flea’. Category:�Insects.
kalmaya���noun. green tree ant. Oecophylla smaragdina. Variant:�Iwaidja: Kardngka buyi (may refer to ant nest). Nukapa kalmaya yarukiny ngartu. ‘That ant's climbed up on me.’ Category:�Insects, Medicine.
kariri���noun. water beetle. Category:�Insects. Note: Mentioned p.572 of Berndt and Berndt (1970) as gariri 'crickets' in Mawng and Kunwinjku
karr���noun. spider. Category:�Insects.
kurli���noun. Cicada, blue grasshopper. Category:�Insects.
kurrpung���noun. head lice (generic term). See:�imilirr�‘head lice eggs’; martajan�‘big head lice’; mulunymuluny�‘small head lice’; murrkurak�‘pubic lice’. Syn:�wulkpung. Category:�Insects, Discomfort and pain.
magarlmarr���noun. 1�•�large khaki or brown coloured ant hills. See:�wuy�‘anthill type’; wampam�‘anthill type’. Category:�Insects.
2�•�khaki to brown colour. Category:�Colours and light.
martajan���noun. large head lice. See:�kurrpung�‘head lice (generic)’; mulunymuluny�‘small head lice’. Category:�Insects.
mayarany���noun. a type of edible grub which lives in the roots of trees and ant hills. See:�yurrgali�‘witchetty grub’. Category:�Insects.
mijmij���noun. sandfly. Syn:�wurri. Category:�Insects.
minang���noun. tick. Category:�Insects, Discomfort and pain.
mirniwurrurru���noun. caterpillar. Category:�Insects.
mirrinnyak���noun. 1�•�Brolga, Saurus crane. Grus rubicundus, Grus antigone. Juka jita mirrinyak kinyjangali. ‘There is a brolga over there.’ See:�wukurl�‘Eastern Reef Egret, black form’. Category:�Large birds.
2�•�a large lanky mosquito type. Mirrinyak nukapa ja pirl ja ngili. ‘The mirrinyak mosquito is a lazy one.’ Mirrinyak ja wirl ja ngili. ‘The mirrinyak is a type of mosquito that is a nuisance (it keeps following someone).’ See:�ngili�‘mosquito, Ibis type’. Category:�Insects.
mulunymuluny���noun. 1�•�a tree with edible red-brown fruit found in the jungle. Anth: They grow outside but near the edge of the jungle, or near a cliff. Aidia racemosa, Drypetes deplanchei, Ganophyllum falcatum. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food.
2�•�small head lice. See:�martajan�‘large head lice’; kurrpung�‘head lice (generic)’. Category:�Insects.
muntamunta���noun. march fly (big variety). See:�witjin�‘march fly’. Category:�Insects.
munyngan���noun. brown and black striped large wasp. Category:�Insects.
murrkurak���noun. public lice. See:�kurrpung�‘head lice (generic)’. Category:�Insects, Discomfort and pain.
muwarn���noun. 1�•�sun. See:�rturrk�‘get very hot’. Category:�Sky.
2�•�timepiece - i.e. clock or watch. Category:�Other.
3�•�bee, fly. Anth: It is around in the very hot season and makes a humming sound, and does not have a sting. See:�kurnpirripirri�‘salt water crocodile’. Category:�Insects.
nyinnyin���noun. white ants. Category:�Insects.
ngalkarn���noun. a large black ant species. Category:�Insects.
ngalngkurrk���noun. large red ant, red meat ants. Category:�Insects.
ngili���noun. 1�•�mosquito. Category:�Insects.
2�•�Glossy Ibis. Plegadis falcinellus. See:�mirrinnyak�‘brolga, mosquito type’. Category:�Small birds.
ngulurrumumu���noun. dragon-fly. Category:�Insects.
rrurulng���noun. 1�•�a centipede-like insect which lives in pandanus. Nuka ja rrurulng ja kapin yalarranypany. Malany ilijap malany kinila murgala. ‘The rrurulng is like a centipede. It is small and it eats pandanus.’ Anth: It is said that if these insects are touched it will cause fits. See:�warntayu�‘fit, like an epileptic fit’. Category:�Insects.
2�•�a special sort of pandanus which grows like a fan with a stem. Category:�Palms.
wampam���noun. anthill type. See:�wuy�‘anthill type’; magarlmarr�‘brown anthill type’. Category:�Insects.
warnany���noun. 1�•�beeswax, plasticine. Category:�Insects.
2�•�string covered with beeswax used to make maykuk, used to 'curse' someone. See:�maykuk�‘token of deceased’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Sorcery.
welep���noun. butterfly, moth. Category:�Insects.
winta���noun. scarab beetle. Category:�Insects. Anth: Has three dark stripes across its back.
winyjulam���noun. hairy caterpillar. Category:�Insects. Anth: Causes an allergic rash.
witjin���noun. 1�•�march fly, a type of biting fly that is a similar size and appearance to a normal fly. See:�muntamunta�‘march fly (big)’. Category:�Insects.
2�•�group of people. Anth: The witjin group of people come from around Alligator River. Category:�Dreamtime names. Note: Also totem related to waryat section but slightly different.
wirtu���noun. maggot. Category:�Insects.
wugi���noun. mangrove worm. Teredo spp.. Category:�Insects, Medicine.
wuk1���noun. small black ant. Kapin wuk. ‘A very large number of people, just like ants!’ Category:�Insects.
wulkpung���noun. head lice. See:�kurrpung�‘head lice (generic)’. Category:�Insects.
wurnngulk���noun. flying insects that creates nests on trees that gives a bad sting. Medium brown with yellow stripes on body, about 1-2 cm long with very narrow wings. See:�wurnkurrk�‘snot’. Category:�Insects.
wurri���noun. sandfly. Variant:�Mayinjinaj term. Syn:�mijmij. Category:�Insects.
wuy���noun. anthill, antheap. Termitaria. See:�wampam�‘anthill type’; magarlmarr�‘brown anthill’. Category:�Insects, Medicine. Anth: Used to treat diarrhoea, heart pain. Preparation: break big handfuls and place in mouth. Light brown mounds are crushed and rubbed onto stomach and groin of pregnant women when fishing, to protect the unborn child's spirit from the Rainbow Serpent. Widows and widowers also drink wuy dissolved in hot water.
yalamparr���noun. bee. Category:�Insects. Variant:�Ngurtikin term.
yalangkarrijalangkarri���noun. dragonfly. Category:�Insects.
yawak���noun. leech. Hirudinea. Category:�Insects, Medicine.
yurrgali���noun. witchetty grub. See:�mayarany�‘edible grub’. Category:�Insects.
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