she-oak

British  

noun

1. any of various Australian trees of the genus Casuarina See casuarina

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Etymology

Origin of she-oak

C18 she (in the sense: inferior) + _oak

Example Sentences

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she-oak

The blue gum, she-oak, and cherry tree of Port Jackson were common here, and also one with the leaves of the gum tree, but with the soft bark of the tea tree.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 by Collins, David

They had chummed together on the seventy-odd-mile tramp from Melbourne; had boiled a common billy and slept side by side in rain-soaked blankets, under the scanty hair of a she-oak.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

I went down under the banks to where there was a big she-oak stump half in the water, going quietly, with an idea of not frightening the fish.

From Over the Sliprails by Lawson, Henry

The rough bark of the she-oak and its soft sappy wood .

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis

I watched him depart until the clacking of his horse's hoofs grew faint on the stony hillside and his form disappeared amid the she-oak scrub which crowned the ridge to the westward.

From My Brilliant Career by Franklin, Miles