casuarinan.
/ˌkasjuːəˈrʌɪnə/ Botany.
A genus of curious trees, with jointed leafless branches, having the appearance of gigantic horsetails (Equiseta), natives of Australia and the Indian Archipelago. The Australian species is known as Beef-wood, and ‘Oak’.
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club-wood1777
oak tree1789
toa1792
casuarina1806
tree horsetail1884
1806 Naval Chron. 15 460 Clubs made of the wood of the casuarina.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 237 The Fiji Islanders eat human flesh with forks made of the hard wood of a casuarina.
1883 Sunday Mag. Sept. 547/1 Splendid date-palms..lofty Australian acacias, casuarinas, and eucalypti.
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