marbuy

Word Class: Mana

tall sedge with thick horizontal rhizome, Eleocharis sphacelata (specimen collected at billabong near Ngukurr)

Other information:

Notes: 114.6.1, 114.11.2, 157.10.4. From descriptions given by informants the term may also cover one or more smaller sedges. Cf. ma[iga, `a`a, munyugu. Not to be confused with marrbuy (with tap r).