araucaria
noun
any of several coniferous trees of the genus Araucaria, of warm regions.
araucarias
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pluralof araucaria.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Deposits of the period at Bournemouth and in the Isle of Wight tell the same story of a land that bore figs, vines, palms, araucarias, and aralias, and waters that sheltered turtles and crocodiles.
From The Story of Evolution by Joseph McCabe
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
Araucaria—The several araucarias should be much more widely known than they are.
From Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse by F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell
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 Rolf Boldrewood
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
