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Angophora, n.|æŋˈgɒfərə|
[mod.L. (coined in A. J. Cavanilles Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum (1797) IV. 21), f. Gr. ἄγγος jar + -ϕόρος bearing, referring to the vase-like fruits of some species.]
A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs of the myrtle family, native to eastern Australia; (also angophora, angophera) a tree or shrub of this genus.
1827C. Fraser in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1923) 3rd Ser. VI. 580 The Hills are exceedingly barren, but producing an immense variety of Plants; here is seen a magnificent species of Angophera. 1830― in Bot. Misc. I. 227 Producing a magnificent species of Angophora. 1892‘R. Boldrewood’ Nevermore III. 14 Beneath a wide-spreading angophora Estelle Challoner seated herself. 1933H. J. Carter Gulliver in Bush 20 The southern shores of the Harbour were good collecting grounds..with considerable areas of angophora and leptospermum of three kinds. 1959‘M. Neville’ Sweet Night for Murder vi. 63 There—did they see? Down there just to the right of that big angophera. 1974D. Ireland Burn 1 The tall rugged eucalypts and angophora cast little shade. |