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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desert oak

It is a species of casuarina, of the same family but distinct from the beautiful desert oak.

From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Ernest Giles

All that day we followed the tracks, over sandhills, samphire-flats, through clumps of desert oak, past dry wells, from sunrise until sunset.

From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie

At first we travelled over sandhills, timbered with the fine Casuarina decaisneana, or desert oak; we then met some eucalyptus-trees growing promiscuously on the tops of the sandhills, as well as in the hollows.

From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Ernest Giles

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.

From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie

Beyond this we entered timbered country again, the desert oak being quite a desert sign.

From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Ernest Giles

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