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Definition of Moreton Bay pine
1. Noun. Pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moreton Bay Pine
Literary usage of Moreton Bay pine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Intellectual Observer (1865)
"On Percy's Island it differs but little from the Moreton Bay pine, except in the
invariable ... The Moreton Bay pine is seldom so. As we go further north, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The state possesses various kinds of valuable timber, such as the red cedar, the
Moreton Bay pine, the cypress pine and several species of eucalyptus. ..."
3. Australia Visited and Revisited: A Narrative of Recent Travels and Old by Samuel Mossman, Thomas Banister (1853)
"The Moreton Bay chestnut also is a handsome tree, and excellent timber; and the
Moreton Bay pine is as useful for building materials in that part of the ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The state possesses various kinds of valuable timber, such as the red cedar, the
Moreton Bay pine, the cypress pine, and several species of eucalyptus. ..."
5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Moreton-Bay Pine, «. See Pine. Moriori, n. a people akin to, but not identical
with, the Maoris. They occupied the Chatham Islands, and were conquered in ..."
6. The Three Colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia by Samuel Sidney (1859)
"From Moreton Bay a considerable trade is carried on with Sydney, and other
less-favored settlements, especially the Moreton Bay pine ..."
7. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"... it has been called the " Moreton Bay pine;" but it is by no means limited to
that district, " It occupies a range," says Mr. Cunningham, " of 900 miles ..."
8. Cooksland in North-eastern Australia: The Future Cottonfield of Great by John Dunmore Lang (1847)
"The trees on the banks were chiefly the Indian fig-tree, the Moreton Bay pine,
the blue gum, the swamp oak, iron bark, cedar, honey suckle, mimosa, ..."
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