Translingual

Casuarina equisetifolia

Proper noun

Casuarina f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Casuarinaceae – beefwood and the she-oaks, trees and shrubs of India, southeast Asia, Australia, and Oceania.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fagales - order; Casuarinaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Casuarina equisetifolia - type species; Casuarina collina, Casuarina cristata, Casuarina cunninghamiana, Casuarina glauca, Casuarina grandis, Casuarina junghuhniana, Casuarina obesa, Casuarina oligodon, Casuarina orophila, Casuarina pauper, Casuarina potamophila, Casuarina tenella, Casuarina teres - other extant species; †Casuarina avenacea, †Casuarina deleta, †Casuarina stellata - extinct species

English

A casuarina

Noun

casuarina ‎(plural casuarinas)

1. Any of several trees, of the genus Casuarina, that have segmented stems; especially the ironwood and beefwood
   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III,

     […] the noise made by the beating of the waves on the land and the sighing of the wind amongst the pendulous leaves—or rather pendant fringe of the casuarina or she-oak, those aeolian harps of the Australian bush, almost drowned their voices.

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