10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JEW LIZARD»
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1
Marriage and Worship in Early Societies
Similarly a man of the jew lizard clan can make lizards plentiful very simply by
knocking chips off the face of a certain rock and throwing them about. The rock,
which may be seen on a "hill called Coppertop, is supposed to represent an old
jew ...
Sir James George Frazer, 1986
2
Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
“This is commonly called the Jew Lizard by colonists, and is easily distinguished
by the beard-like growth of long slender spires round the throat . . . when irritated,
it inflates the body to a considerably increased size, and hisses like a snake ...
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
3
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
A Jew: Anglo-irish coll.: late C.19~20. (James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922.) Cfv J€Wy.—
~2. As j-, a Jewfish; a Jew lizard: Aus. coll.: C.20. B., 1953. jew'lng, vbl n. Tailoring
; 'To do "jew|ng“ is to make or repair clothes' (Taffrail'): nautical: late C.19-20 ...
4
The Native Tribes of South-East Australia
Totems. Waip-illi large brown eagle- hawk Pain-ira teal-duck Wirak-gintha Jew-
lizard Wala-kili crow. Wai-im-bali iguana. Wa-ip-ili brown-coloured eagle-hawk
Totems. Bra-ar-gar a small hawk Tchuteba rabbit-rat Baua flying-squirrel next.
Alfred William Howitt, Howitt, 2010
5
The native tribes of South-East Australia
... tribes, Eagle-hawk, Teal-duck, and Jew-lizard, should be Mukwara, and Crow,
Iguana, and brown Eagle-hawk, Kilpara. TlIl-l TA-TATIII TRIBE2 Classes. 'I'nlems.
“'aipsilli large browr. eaglehawk I'arn-im lenI-(luck \Virak-ginlha Jew-lizard ...
6
Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia: A Noctuary
In the myth, two jew lizard men were appointed to stand up to the old woman and
her dogs. They did so by killing the three. But as a result, the sun which had
never previously set, so the story goes, went down in the west, and to the dismay
of ...
7
The Naturalist in Australia
In one other Australian species, Amphibolurus barbatus, commonly known as the
Jew Lizard, which is also figured and described in this Chapter, the throat
membrane is likewise inflated under the influence of irritation in such a manner
as ...
William Saville-Kent, 2014
8
Burke and Wills: The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian ...
The eastern bearded dragon (Jew lizard) Pogona barbata Cuvier, 1829, (formerly
Amphybolurus barbatas), is a similar sized but less robust relative of the central
bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps. The latter is also distinguished by an orderly ...
EB Joyce, DA McCann, 2011
9
Handbook of Australian Languages
... perentie (Varanus giganteus): kuwiyarl common (Varanus tristis) mit i a long-
tailed variety: tjilawara others: parnka, wartapi gecko, black: yarluyarlura,
parapara 'Ta-ta lizard': itjitji lizards, small,'Jew lizard': tjatjara stone-coloured:
martamarta ...
Robert M. W. Dixon, Barry J. Blake, 1981
10
Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van ...
Lizards are numerous, and some attain the length of three or four feet ; the most
remarkable are the Jew lizard, which has a membrane that it can extend in such
a manner as to form a complete ruff round its neck ; the capucin, which, I am told,
...
William Henry Breton, 1833
