araucaria

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That particular tree was concluded to be an araucaria, a species now found in Norfolk Island, in the South Sea, and in a few other remote situations.

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  1. noun Any of several evergreen coniferous trees of the genus Araucaria native to South America and Australia, having awl-shaped leaves and whorled branches and including the monkey puzzle and Norfolk lsland pine.

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  1. From Spanish Araucaria, (tree) of Arauco, a former province of south-central Chile.
 

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