)Yam, Long, n. 41: Box shrubs which were not yet clothed with their creamy-whiteplumes (so like the English meadowsweet). )-- Phaps chalcoptera, Lath. moresbyensis, Ramsay.
Yellow-wood, a name applied to several Australiantrees with the epithets of Dark, Light, Deep, etc. It has powerful mandibles, but willattack nobody unless itself attacked. Clutterbuck, `Port Phillip in 1849,' p. Karoro, n.