stringy-bark
Britishnoun
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The stringy-bark tree, and Tristania, were growing on the sandy soil, and the latter near watercourses.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
The pigs and geese were in the hut, the hen on the table flew, And she laid an egg in the old tin plate for the stringy-bark cockatoo.
From The Old Bush Songs by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
Roaming about the country, looking for some work to do, I got a job of reaping off a stringy-bark cockatoo.
From The Old Bush Songs by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
Brook had shifted the rails there often before—fifteen years ago—perhaps the selfsame rails, for stringy-bark lasts long; and the action brought the past near to him—nearer than he wished.
From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
A hut in a dark gully; slab and stringy-bark, two rooms and a detached kitchen with the boys' room roughly partitioned off it.
From The Rising of the Court by Henry Lawson
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