jarrah
Americannoun
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a hardwood tree, Eucalyptus marginata, of western Australia.
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the heavy, often attractively grained wood of this tree.
noun
Etymology
Origin of jarrah
First recorded in 1865–70, jarrah is from the Nyungar word jaril
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It was refloored with salvaged jarrah, a Western Australian timber, and now serves as the pair’s living area.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
And as Australia's forests dry out, alpine ash, snowgum woodlands and northern jarrah forests would then largely collapse.
From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2022
Many types of wood are used in hardwood flooring, Clarke tells us, like oak, maple, cherry, bamboo, walnut, ash, and mahogany and exotic species like teak, jarrah, and mesquite.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2022
The walls were colonial ramparts—logs of jarrah spiked into masonry—with wings as strong as Church buttresses.
From Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling
He spent the afternoon shaping a swagger-stick from the branch of jarrah and talking with Miss La Rue, who had sufficiently unbent toward him to notice his existence.
From The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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