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
The araucaria is, I think, the most beautiful of all formal decorative plants.
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 Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye)
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
They could hear from somewhere on the margin the purl of a weir, and around were clumps of shrubs, araucarias and deodars being the commonest.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas
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 McCabe, Joseph
There are acacias, sumachs, cedar deodaras, araucarias, laurels, planes, beds of rhododendrons, and so on.
From Nature Near London by Jefferies, Richard
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)
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