tuckeroo
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Noun
[edit]tuckeroo (plural tuckeroos)
- A flowering tree, Cupaniopsis anacardioides, native to northern and eastern Australia.
- 1993, Geoff Williams, Terry Evans, Hidden Rainforests: Subtropical Rainforests and Their Invertebrate Diversity[1], page 60:
- Two canopy-forming trees, Tuckeroo (Cupaniopsis anacardioides), and Coast Banksia (Banksia integrifolia var. integrifolia), are typical of these latter rainforests.
- 2008, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, East Coast Australia[2], page 267:
- You can sit in the shade of the tuckeroo tree.