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hoop pine en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Araucaria cunninghamii, a tree of eastern Australia and New Guinea.
   • 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. 1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 6:
   • Kerry floated on her back in the Caledonian River, looking skyward through the limbs of Granny Ava's hoop pine. 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 27:

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