family Araucariaceae

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family Araucariaceae - tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceaearaucaria family, Araucariaceaegymnosperm family - a family of gymnospermsConiferales, order Coniferales - profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leavesWollemi pine - newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assignedgenus Araucaria - a genus of the araucaria familyAgathis, genus Agathis - kauri pine