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Definition of Casuarinas
1. casuarina [n] - See also: casuarina
Lexicographical Neighbors of Casuarinas
Literary usage of Casuarinas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"of casuarinas, as lofty as the Larch in this climate, occurs near the entrance.
Mr. Schenley, one of the commissioners appointed to watch over the smuggling ..."
2. Rambles on the Riviera by Eduard Strasburger (1906)
"... chlorophyll — whose presence is essential for the elaboration of the sap
throughout the tree. In Australia casuarinas form vast, characteristic forests. ..."
3. An Indian Garden by Emilie Mary Hughes Eggar (1904)
"Although many of them are deciduous, the garden never presents a real wintry
aspect with all the branches bare together. The Jack trees and the casuarinas ..."
4. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"The former alludes to the cassowary (Casuarius), the plumage of which is
comparatively as much reduced among birds, as the foliage of the casuarinas is ..."
5. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1860)
"Thus, while there are no casuarinas in northern countries, ... It is the presence
of great numbers of casuarinas in Australia which causes that scantiness ..."
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