Definition of Port jackson fig

1. Noun. Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Port Jackson Fig

Porphyra
Porphyrio
Porphyrio porphyrio
Porphyrula
Porphyrula martinica
Porroh
Porscha
Porsche
Porsches
Port-Vila
Port-au-Prince
Port-of-Spain
Port Arthur
Port Blair
Port Elizabeth
Port Jackson fig
Port Jackson heath
Port Jackson pine
Port Louis
Port Moresby
Port Orford cedar
Port Sudan
Port Vila
Port of Spain
Portable Management Interface
Porte
Portia
Portingal
Portingals
Portishead

Literary usage of Port jackson fig

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

1. Forestry Handbook by R. Dalrymple Hay, Joseph Henry Maiden (1917)
"In Lord Howe Island a fig looked upon by some botanists as specifically identical with our Port Jackson fig is called the Banyan, as its aerial roots ..."

2. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1908)
"Sydney, the capital and the oldest city in Australia, founded in 1788, on one of the coves of Port Jackson, FIG. 2^9. ..."

3. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales by Royal Society of New South Wales (1901)
"Picus rubiginosa, Desf., "port jackson fig." This fig, like others of the genus, exudes a juice when the bark is wounded. It is put to no useful purpose. ..."

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