Definition of Moreton bay pine

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

Exact synonyms: Araucaria Cunninghamii, Hoop Pine
Generic synonyms: Araucaria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moreton Bay Pine

Mordva
Mordvin
Mordvinia
Mordvinian
Mordvinians
More
Morecambe
Morel's ear
Morelia spilotes variegatus
Morelos
Morerastrongylus costaricensis
Moresque
Moreton Bay
Moreton Bay bug
Moreton Bay chestnut
Moreton Bay pine
Moreton Bay tulipwood
Morgagni's appendix
Morgagni's cartilage
Morgagni's cataract
Morgagni's columns
Morgagni's concha
Morgagni's crypts
Morgagni's disease
Morgagni's foramen
Morgagni's frenum
Morgagni's globules

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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