Word Class: noun/prefix
(outer) shell (of nut, etc., not normally for shellfish)
Notes: NCder-`a. 120.5.2 (ma-`a, shell of fruit). In form (an-)u-`a NcAnaWu can mean billycan (more often called bulayi). Apparently unrelated etymologically to ma`a scorpion, centipede . Cf. marangarra, muurrng, w1umurrng.