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HUON PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does huon pine mean? 

HUON PINE (noun)
  The noun HUON PINE has 1 sense:

1. Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydiumplay

  Familiarity information: HUON PINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HUON PINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dacrydium franklinii; huon pine; Lagarostrobus franklinii

Hypernyms ("huon pine" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Holonyms ("huon pine" is a member of...):

genus Lagarostrobus; Lagarostrobus (genus of dioecious evergreen trees of New Zealand and Tasmania; similar to genus Dacrydium)


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