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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 Dacrydium
Familiarity information: HUON PINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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