How To Use She-oak In A Sentence
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Known as swamp she-oak in its native Australia, Casuarina glauca grows in difficult, saline sites inhospitable to many other trees.
Chapter 20
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The road becomes a strip of bitumen flanked at first by banana trees, then by an array of she-oaks.
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And then simultaneously arose all the choral songs of the wilderness, -- creatures whose voices are heard at night, -- the loud whir of the locusts, the musical boom of the bullfrog, the cuckoo note of the morepork, and, mournful amidst all those merrier sounds, the hoot of the owl, through the wizard she-oaks and the pale green of the gum-trees.
A Strange Story — Volume 07
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It sits amid eleven hectares of tropical gardens on Mai Khao Beach, a 17-km skein of sand and she-oaks.
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On hillocks trailing she-oaks, olives, myrtle and prickly pear, circular ruins rise up, like razed windmills.
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They were the only things not making a racket behind the beach today, because the she-oaks, ti-trees and a few other things are in full flower and the circus has come to town.
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I recrossed Batman's Creek, and travelled over thinly-timbered country of box, gum, wattle, and she-oak, with grass three of four feet high.
A Source Book of Australian History
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Toby: it's the one called "she-oak" though that term is not in colloquial usage in Hawaii.
Languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.
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They had chummed together on the seventy-odd-mile tramp from Melbourne; had boiled a common billy and slept side by side in rain-soaked blankets, under the scanty hair of a she-oak.
Australia Felix
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Here and there stood a solitary she-oak, most doleful of trees, its scraggy, pine-needle foliage bleached to grey.
Australia Felix
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When the wattle-blooms are drooping in the sombre she-oak glade,
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
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The most widely used common name for Casuarinaceae species is sheoak or she-oak.
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The tree there resembles our common mountain fir: it is exactly like it in the bark; but it is called by the settlers, _the she-oak_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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Also scattered along the back of the beach are clumps of windswept Horsetail She-oaks - a perfect name for these pendulous trees.
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Then, as the miners left, the few "cockatoo" settlers followed them, or shifted in nearer to the town on the sea-coast with their horse and bullock teams, and an ominous silence began to fall upon the Flat when the tinkle of the cattle bells no longer was heard among the dark fringe of sighing she-oaks bordering the creek.
"Chinkie's Flat" 1904
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The road becomes a strip of bitumen flanked at first by banana trees, then by an array of she-oaks.
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Our campsite is a scalloped bay whose beach, shaded by she-oaks, is so narrow at high tide that I can roll straight out of my tent and into the lagoon.
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I say, Joan, you remember the old Eight Mile Water-hole on Dingo Flat – middle of the patch of flooded gum and she-oak – that the Blacks used to say had no bottom to it?
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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Near the head of the river, on the point, was a plantation of she-oak.
A Source Book of Australian History
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She-oak, oak, or casuarina is a family of Australian native trees that produces large quantities of wind-blown pollen.
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Casuarina equisetifolia (she-oak) Avicennia officinalis (white mangrove).
Tropic Days