Definitions for casuarina

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. casuarina(noun)

    any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood

Wiktionary

  1. casuarina(Noun)

    Any of several trees, of the genus Casuarina, that have segmented stems; especially the ironwood and beefwood

Webster Dictionary

  1. Casuarina(noun)

    a genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color


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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

casuarina(noun)

a tall, feathery tree with drooping, jointed, green branches and scale-like leaves.

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