Definition of Araucaria cunninghamii

1. Noun. Pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood.

Exact synonyms: Hoop Pine, Moreton Bay Pine
Generic synonyms: Araucaria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Araucaria Cunninghamii

Arapahoe
Arapahos
Ararat
Aras
Aras an Uachtaran
Arau
Arauca
Araucana
Araucania
Araucanian
Araucanians
Araucanization
Araucaria araucana
Araucaria bidwillii
Araucaria columnaris
Araucaria cunninghamii
Araucaria excelsa
Araucaria heterophylla
Araucariaceae
Araujia
Araujia sericofera
Arava
Arawak
Arawakan
Arawn
Arax
Araxes
Arbil
Arbor Day

Literary usage of Araucaria cunninghamii

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pinetum: Being a Synopsis of All the Coniferous Plants at Present Known by George Gordon, Henry George Bohn (1880)
"This curling up of the leaves gives the boughs exactly the appearance of the araucaria cunninghamii, and appears to be an intermediate link between the two ..."

2. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on Planting and Tending of Forest Trees by James Brown (1894)
"and Moreton Bay, Kauri, and Cypress Pines (araucaria cunninghamii, Aiton, ... and Pine (araucaria cunninghamii) are the only timbers exported, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The pines take an important position in the colony,—as the Moretón Bay pine (Araucaria Cunninghamii), the Burnett bunya bunya (Araucaria ..."

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