单词 | river oak |
释义 | > as lemmasriver oak river oak n. any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina, or (more widely) the family Casuarinaceae, found on riverbanks or in moist ground, esp. C. cunninghamiana, a large tree with needle-like foliage; (also) the wood of this tree; cf. she-oak n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > Australian or New Zealand oak oak1789 she-oak1792 river oak1817 shingle-oak1818 New Zealand oak1835 swamp-oak1837 he-oak1844 river she-oak1872 forest-oak1882 bull oak1884 desert oak1896 1817 A. Cunningham in I. Marriott Early Explorers Austral. 9 Apr. (1925) 176 Casuarina torulosa (River Oak)..with another species of Eucalyptus called by the colonists ‘Stringy Bark’. 1918 H.H. Corbin et al. Federal Capital Territory 7 In the bed of the Cotter and Murrumbidgee, and also other rivers, one finds a very excellent growth of the ‘river oak’, Cas. cunninghamii. 1992 Cent. Home Feb.–Mar. 65/2 All tradition construction, River oak, ash, cherry and hickory. < as lemmas |
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