desert oak

British  

noun

1. a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack

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Example Sentences

Even in the Mexican border, desert oak, juniper and manzanita cover the mountains, and there is a vigorous though short-lived growth of grasses and flower from July to October.

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Latitude 26 degrees 4 minutes South; longitude 129 degrees 50 minutes East:-- The Casuarina Decaisneana, the Shea-oak or Desert Oak peculiar to Central Australia.

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Here we saw the first desert oak, standing solitary sentinel on the crest of a ridge.

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I can imagine any one, on being suddenly placed on rising ground with a vast plain of waving spinifex spreading before him—a plain relieved occasionally by the stately desert oak, solemn, white, and mysterious—saying, “Ah! what a charming view—how beautiful that rolling plain of grass! its level surface broken by that bold sandhill, fiery-red in the blaze of sun!”

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I noticed a considerable change in the country to the East, over which there spread a forest of desert oak, and near the sandhills thickets of ti-tree.

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