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

She believes the coloring helps them camouflage among she-oak flowers, with which they are closely associated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The trees in general were the tall she-oak so common in the neighbourhood of Sydney.*

From The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Ida Lee

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 Henry Handel Richardson

The tree there resembles our common mountain fir: it is exactly like it in the bark; but it is called by the settlers, the she-oak.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

The she-oak trees, of which there are large quantities in the sandy soil of the salt-bush country, proved very serviceable during the late drought.

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 Edward Ellis Morris