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HUON PINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium
Synonyms:
Dacrydium franklinii; huon pine; Lagarostrobus franklinii
Classified under:
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)