Definition of Hoop pine

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

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

Definition of Hoop pine

1. Noun. ''Araucaria cunninghamii'', a tree of eastern Australia and New Guinea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoop Pine

hooligans
hoolock
hoolocks
hooly
hoom
hoon
hoond
hoonds
hooned
hooning
hoonoomaun
hoonoomauns
hoons
hoop
hoop ash
hoop pine (current term)
hoop skirt
hoop skirts
hoop snake
hoop snakes
hooped
hooper
hoopers
hooping
hoopla
hooplas
hoopless
hooplike
hoopoe
hoopoes

Literary usage of Hoop pine

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

1. The Indian Forester (1902)
"Cedar, Besch and hoop pine.—These valuable timbers I must dismiss in a few words. ... The. hoop pine is our most abundant soft wood of the pine class, ..."

2. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1902)
"Known also as "Colonial" or "hoop pine." Height 150—200 ft.; diam. 3—5| ft. SG 763—500. W 30—33-75. Yielding spars 80—100 ft. long, light-coloured, light, ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Austral., where it reaches a height of 200 ft., yielding valuable timber and resin. Locally known as hoop pine, More- ton Bay Pine, Colonial Pine, Coorong, ..."

4. Site Management and Productivity in Tropical Plantation Forests: Proceedings by E. K. Sadanandan Nambiar (2004)
"Denitrification, leaching and immobilisation of 15N-labelled nitrate in winter under windrowed harvest residues in hoop pine plantations of 1-3 years old in ..."

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