Indigenous Australian peoples traditionally classified food sources in a methodical way. Below are a few examples. Australian Aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Australia. ...

Central Australia

In Central Australia, people used innovative means to obtain a balanced diet. Central Australia is a term used to describe the area of land surrounding and including Alice Springs in Australia. ...

The food categories, and their Arrernte names are: Arrente is both a language, a group of people, and an area of land in Central Australia. ...

Arrernte name	Foods	Examples
Kere	food from animals; meat, fat, offal, blood, eggs	Kere arlewatyerre (goanna), Kere ulkerte (perentie), Kere arntetherrke (carpet snake), Kere aherre (kangaroo), Kere antenhe (possum), Kere inape (porcupine (echidna)), Kere ankerre (emu).
Merne	food from plants; fruit, vegetables	Merne atwakeye (wild orange), Merne arrutnenge (wild passionfruit), Merne pmerlpe (quandong), Merne mwanyeme (bush tomato), Merne arnweketye (conkerberry), Merne alangkwe (bush banana), Merne arlatyeye (pencil yam).
Ntange (Merne ntange)	edible seeds	Merne ntange ulyawe (Pigweed seed), Merne ntange arlepe (Prickly wattle seed), Merne ntange artetye (Mulga seed), Merne ntange arlketyerre (Dead finish seed). (See also: seedcakes)
Tyape	edible grubs and insects; witchetties, cicadas,	Tyape atnyematye (Witchetty grub), Tyape ahernenge (River red gum grub), Tyape ankerrutne (Coolibah tree grub), Tyape tyerraye (Cicadas), Tyape ayepe-arenye (Tar vine caterpillars).
Ngkwarle	honey-like foods; nectar, wild honey, lerps, gum	Main article: Australian Aboriginal sweet foods Ngkwarle athenge arlperle (Ironwood tree gum), Ngkwarle alkerampwe (Mulga tree gum, Ngkwarle arlperrampwe (Whitewood tree gum, Ngkwarle atnyerampwe (Supplejack tree gum), Ngkwarle akikarre (Witchetty bush gum), Ngkwarle aperarnte (River Red gum honeydew, Ngkwarle yerrampe, (Honeyant), Ngkwarle arwengalkere (Native bee honey), Ngkwarle untyeyampe (Corkwood flower nectar).

Some other category words from Arrernte that are used in relation to food include: Flesh redirects here. ... Scrapple sandwich at the Delaware state fair Offal is the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. ... Species See text. ... Binomial name Varanus giganteus (Gray, 1845) The Perentie is the largest monitor lizard or goanna native to Australia. ... Species Macropus rufus Macropus giganteus Macropus fuliginosus A kangaroo is any of several large macropods (the marsupial family that also includes the wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons and the Quokka: 63 species in all). ... Superfamilies and Families Phalangeroidea Burramyidae Phalangeridae Petauroidea Pseudocheiridae Petauridae Tarsipedidae Acrobatidae A possum is any of about 63 small to medium-sized arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea and Sulawesi. ... Species Genus Tachyglossus    T. aculeatus Genus Zaglossus    Z. attenboroughi    Z. bruijnii    Z. bartoni    Z. hacketti(extinct)    Z. robustus(extinct) Echidnas, sometimes also referred to as spiny anteaters, are the only surviving monotremes apart from the Platypus. ... Binomial name Dromaius novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) Synonyms Dromiceius novaehollandiae The Emu (IPA pronunciation: ), Dromaius novaehollandiae, is the largest bird native to Australia and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ... Vegetables on a market Vegetable is a nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary fruit, nut, herb, spice, or grain. ... Binomial name Capparis mitchelii Wild orange, is an Australian native plant. ... Trinomial name Capparis spinosa ssp. ... Binomial name Santalum acuminatum A.DC. Quandong (alternative spelling Quongdong, also called wild peach or desert peach) is the name given to three kinds of Australian wild bush plants, of which two belong to the sandalwood genus (Santalum): Desert quandong, sweet quandong, or native peach (Santalum acuminatum). ... Binomial name Solanum ellipticum Solanum cleistogarnum J.M.Black Bush tomato (Solanum ellipticum and Solanum cleistogarnum) are plants native to the more arid parts of Australia. ... Binomial name Marsdenia australis Bush banana, is an Australian native plant. ... Binomial name Vigna lanceolata Pencil yam, is an Australian native plant. ... pigweed can mean any of a number of weedy plants which may be used as pig fodder: Amaranthus species Chenopodium species Portulaca species Category: ... Binominal name Acacia aneura In botany, a Mulga (Acacia aneura) is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback Australia. ... A Witchetty grub is a large wood-eating larva of the ghost moth. ... Genera Many. ... A Witchetty grub is a large wood-eating larva of the ghost moth. ... Binomial name Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. ... Species About 700; see the List of Eucalyptus species Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of trees (and a few shrubs), the members of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. ... Genera Many. ... The striking caterpillar of the Emperor Gum Moth A caterpillar is the larval form of a lepidopteran (a member of the insect order comprised of butterflies and moths). ... Australian Aborigines had many ways to source sweet foods. ... Genera Lestrimelitta Melipona Trigona, sensu lato: (21 genera) The stingless bees belong to the tribe Meliponini (usually called the stingless honeybee) in the family Apidae, which also comprise the common honeybees, carpenter bees, orchid bees and bumblebees. ... In biology, a lerp is a structure of crystallized honeydew produced by larvae of psyllid insects as a protective cover. ... Australian Aborigines had many ways to source sweet foods. ... Binomial name Acacia estrophiolata F.Muell. ... Binominal name Acacia aneura In botany, a Mulga (Acacia aneura) is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback Australia. ... Whitewood can be: The wood of spruce trees. ... Binomial name Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. ... Genera Lestrimelitta Melipona Trigona, sensu lato: (21 genera) The stingless bees belong to the tribe Meliponini (usually called the stingless honeybee) in the family Apidae, which also comprise the common honeybees, carpenter bees, orchid bees and bumblebees. ... Binomial name Leitneria floridana The Corkwood (Leitneria floridana) is a deciduous dioecious shrub or small tree, found only in the Southeast of the United States (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas). ... Arrente is both a language, a group of people, and an area of land in Central Australia. ...

• Thipe fleshy flying creatures; birds (not emus), bats
• Kwatye water in any form, sources of water; water, rain, clouds
• Arne trees, shrubs, bushes, woody plants, some grasses
• Ure fire, things to do with fire.

Top End

In the Top End, seafood plays an important part in the diet. The food groups and their Yolngu names are: The Top End is, Cape York Peninsula aside, the northernmost part of Australia. ... Location of Yolngu (yellow, top right) in the Northern Territory For Yolngu language see Yolngu Matha. ...

MARANHU (foods)

Yolŋu name	Foods
Murnyaŋ' (plant or vegetable food) Alternative names: Dhäkadatj; Ŋayaŋay', Buku-bira'	Gonyil (meat, shellfish, eggs) Alternative names: Matha-yal, Merrpal'Matha-bira, Ŋänarr-yal
1. Borum— fruits	1. Warrakan'— land animals and birds
2. Guku— bee products	2. Miyapunu— marine mammals
3. Ŋatha— root foods	3. Maranydjalk— rays and sharks
4. Manutji Ŋatha— seeds	4. Guya— fish
5. Mudhuŋay— cycad foodstuffs	5. Maypal— shellfish, crabs
	6. Mapu— eggs

The old people would talk about the need to eat from both murŋyan' and gonyil food groups and the need to supplement their diet with gapu (fresh water). While this balance was maintained, the people knew they were eating correctly.^[1] Orders Carcharhiniformes Heterodontiformes Hexanchiformes Lamniformes Orectolobiformes Pristiophoriformes Squaliformes Squatiniformes Sharks (superorder Selachimorpha) are fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton[1] and a streamlined body. ... A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded; covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ... Families Cycadaceae cycas family Stangeriaceae stangeria family Zamiaceae zamia family Leaves and male cone of Cycas revoluta Cycads are an ancient group of seed plants characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout trunk. ... Cooked mussels Shellfish is a term used to describe shelled molluscs and crustaceans used as food. ...

When the men would come back from the magpie goose hunt, they would be craving murnyaŋ foods after having eaten so much meat and eggs. While the women, children and old people back in the camps would be looking forward to gonyil, Magpie goose meat and eggs, after eating so much murnyaŋ'.^[2] Binomial name Anseranas semipalmata (Latham, 1798) The Magpie Goose, Anseranas semipalmata, is an unusual member of the bird order Anseriformes, which contains about 150 species in three families. ...

See also

• Bush tucker
• Australian Aboriginal sweet foods

Bush Tucker is a colloquial Australian term for any food native to Australia and eaten before European colonisation. ... Australian Aborigines had many ways to source sweet foods. ...

References

1. ^ Richard Trudgen, below
2. ^ Thomson, Donald and Peterson, Nicolas, Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land, Miegunyah Press, 2003, ISBN 052285205, p 158.

• Trudgen, Richard, Why Warriors Lie Down and Die, ARDS, Darwin, 1996, ISBN 0646395874, p 140
• Turner, Margaret-Mary, Arrernte Foods, Foods from Central Australia, IAD Press, Alice Springs, 1994, ISBN 0949659762 pviii