macquarie pine

macquarie pine
noun
Usage: usually capitalized M
Etymology: after Lachlan MacQuarie

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • port macquarie pine — | ̷ ̷mə|kwȯrē noun Usage: usually capitalized 1st P&M Etymology: from Port Macquarie, New So. Wales, Australia : an Australian sandarac tree (Callitris macleayana) …   Useful english dictionary

  • Macquarie Harbour — is a large, shallow, inlet on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.HistoryJames Kelly entered on the 28th December 1815, however Charles Whitham (see below, p.110) discovered variations on this date.Surveyor General Oxley of New South Wales in… …   Wikipedia

  • Macquarie Harbour Penal Station — Main article: Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania Macquarie Harbour Penal Station Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour Location Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, Australia. Coordinates …   Wikipedia

  • Macquarie Harbour — /məkwɒri ˈhabə/ (say muhkworee hahbuh) noun an inlet on the western coast of Tasmania; penal settlement 1822–34. 32 km long. {named after Governor L Macquarie1} Macquarie Harbour, in territory traditionally occupied by the Toogee people, was… …  

  • cypress pine — ▪ plant       any of the ornamental and timber shrubs and trees of two closely related genera (Callitris and Widdringtonia) of the family Cupressaceae.       Fourteen species constitute the genus Callitris, whose taxonomy still requires detailed… …   Universalium

  • Huon Pine — Lagarostrobos franklinii Lagarostrobos franklinii Systematik Abteilung: Pinophyta Klasse: Pinopsida …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Huon pine — /hyooh on/ or, often, /yooh / a coniferous tree, Dacrydium franklinii, of Tasmania, having very small cones and yielding timber. [1810 20; named after the Huon river in Tasmania] * * * ▪ tree also called  Macquarie pine        (Lagarostrobos… …   Universalium

  • Lake Macquarie Petrified Forest — The Lake Macquarie Petrified Forest is a petrifed pine tree forest at Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.The petrified forest was first referred to in print within a grammar of the local Aboriginal people published in Sydney during 1834… …   Wikipedia

  • Lagarostrobos — Taxobox name = Lagarostrobos franklinii status = LR/cd | status system = IUCN2.3 image width = 240px image caption = Huon Pine in a Tasmanian botanical garden. regnum = Plantae divisio = Pinophyta classis = Pinopsida ordo = Pinales familia =… …   Wikipedia

  • Lagarostrobos — franklinii Lagarostrobos franklinii Systematik Abteilung: Pinophyta Klasse: Pinopsida …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”