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