hoop pine
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The tree's bark has horizontal bands resembling hoops (compare image).[1]
Noun[edit]
hoop pine (plural hoop pines)
- Araucaria cunninghamii, a tree of eastern Australia and New Guinea. [from 19th c.]
- 1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 6:
- The key colour is green, and of a particular density: the green of mangroves along the riverbanks, of Moreton Bay figs, of the big trees that are natives of this corner of Queensland, the shapely hoop-pines and bunyas that still dominate the skyline along every river.