jarrah

English

Trunk of an old Jarrah tree, Darling Range, Western Australia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɹə/
• Rhymes: -æɹə

Noun

jarrah (countable and uncountable, plural jarrahs)

1. A eucalypt tree of species Eucalyptus marginata, occurring in the southwest of Western Australia, or its wood.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Broken-Link Handicap”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 112:

     The walls were colonial ramparts—logs of jarrah spiked into masonry—with wings as strong as Church buttresses.

   • 2002, Richard Frankham, David A. Briscoe, Jonathan D. Ballou, Karina H. McInnes, Introduction to Conservation Genetics, page 103:

     In contrast, resistance to root rot fungus in jarrah trees has a significant heritability (Box 5.1), so jarrahs can evolve to resist the introduced dieback.

   • 2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, page 8:

     Right here. At the foot of an enormous old-growth jarrah.

Coordinate terms

• mahogany gum

Further reading

• Eucalyptus marginata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eucalyptus marginata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• jarrah at USDA Plants database
• Eucalyptus marginata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons