araucaria
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Origin of araucaria
1825–35; < New Latin, named after Arauc ( o ) province in central Chile; see -aria
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Back on the black volcanic field crossed by the Truful Truful, as a snowstorm approached a nearby peak with thousand-year-old araucaria trees, Curin defined his people’s goal in more essential terms.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
As DePalma worked around the paddlefish, more of the araucaria branch came to light, including its short, spiky needles.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019
As more of it was exposed, we could clearly see that the fish’s two-foot-long snout had broken when it was forced—probably by the flood’s surge—against the branches of a submerged araucaria tree.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019
And they don't have the flamboyant crowns of the araucaria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2015
Tall india-rubber plants, gigantic eucalyptus, great bamboos, the rarest exotics, such as the Pritchardia folifera, the araucaria, and the Scaforthia elegans, flourish on this favoured shore.
From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
After the severe winter of 1860-1861 if was observed that in a large bed of araucarias some plants stood quite unhurt among numbers killed around them.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The cypresses, araucarias and some other genera have no true bud-scales; in some species, e.g.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
It will often be worth while to supplement these with others, to be had at the florists, such as caladiums, screw pines, Ficus elastica, araucarias, Musa Ensete, palms, dracenas, crotons, and others.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
If she were not, she would pine away like her own araucarias which will not live outside of the wave music.
From A Modern Buccaneer by Boldrewood, Rolf
There is an increasing demand for foliage hothouse plants, such as ferns, palms, crotons, aspidistras, araucarias, dracaenas, India-rubber plants, aralias, grevilleas, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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