Meaning of casuarina | Babel Free

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Any of numerous trees, of the genera Casuarina and Allocasuarina, having segmented needle-like leaves; especially the ironwood and beefwood; she-oak.

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“1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form⟳ in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt […] the noise made by the beating of the waves on the land⟳ and the sighing of the wind amongst the pendulous leaves—or rather pendant fringe of the casuarina or she-oak, those aeolian harps of the Australian bush, almost drowned their voices.”

“Lower down, in a little reach⟳ of the lagoon there grew a clump of casuarinas, those timid isolates that withdraw⟳ from other trees, selecting their own⟳ privacy, which is for ever whispering secrets up in their feathery fronds, set⟳ in motion by the slightest breeze.”

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