hoop pine

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Etymology

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The tree's bark has horizontal bands resembling hoops (compare image).[1]

Noun

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hoop pine (plural hoop pines)

  1. Araucaria cunninghamii, a tree of eastern Australia and New Guinea. [from 19th c.]
    • 1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 6:
      The key colour is green, and of a particular density: the green of mangroves along the riverbanks, of Moreton Bay figs, of the big trees that are natives of this corner of Queensland, the shapely hoop-pines and bunyas that still dominate the skyline along every river.

References

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  1. ^ J. F. Rock (1917) The Ornamental Trees of Hawaii, →OCLC, page 7: “The bark of this tree is quite characteristic, having the appearance of horizontal bands, whence it derived its name Hoop Pine.”
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