she-oak

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of she-oak¹

C18 she (in the sense: inferior) + oak

Example Sentences

They jumped up and climbed the bank, while I perched on the she-oak roots over the water to be out of sight as they passed.

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The night wind sighed a soothing lullaby through the spines of the she-oak, and his spirit passed peacefully away with the ebb.

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

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And as Faber here paused, there came a strange laugh from the fantastic she-oak-tree overhanging the stream,—a wild, impish laugh.

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

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