Meanings
plural hoop pines
- Araucaria cunninghamii, a tree of eastern Australia and New Guinea.First known use 19th c.
Kerry floated on her back in the Caledonian River, looking skyward through the limbs of Granny Ava's hoop pine.
2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 271 more example
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.
1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 6
Synonyms & antonyms
nounpine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
The tree's bark has horizontal bands resembling hoops (compare image).
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