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

It was not a cheerful night, for the wind had risen, and was moaning among the she-oak trees like a million lost spirits.

From A Crime of the Under-seas by Boothby, Guy Newell

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

The beautiful she-oak and red-gum forest that used to clothe the slopes of Royal Park was a very favourite camping-ground of theirs, as the gum-tree was their most regular source of food supply.

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

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 Lee, Ida

It's the second big paddock from here, if you follow the belt of the she-oak trees over there.

From Dot and the Kangaroo by Pedley, Ethel C.