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- noun Plural form of
ironbark .
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Examples
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Eric showed me the ancient, frayed, two-foot-six-inch butts of ironbarks the original sleeper-cutters had felled with axes, working at a comfortable height to swing the axe and avoid bending down to cut the tree from its base, regardless of the waste of good lumber.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Hot wind swayed the tops of the ironbarks and bark peeled off the eucalypts in the heat, hanging in seductive, inflammable ribbons.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Hot wind swayed the tops of the ironbarks and bark peeled off the eucalypts in the heat, hanging in seductive, inflammable ribbons.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Eric showed me the ancient, frayed, two-foot-six-inch butts of ironbarks the original sleeper-cutters had felled with axes, working at a comfortable height to swing the axe and avoid bending down to cut the tree from its base, regardless of the waste of good lumber.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Scarcely a tree was left standing, but now they have grown back: ironbarks and white gums, grey box, and dense coppice woods of mallee gum trees.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Scarcely a tree was left standing, but now they have grown back: ironbarks and white gums, grey box, and dense coppice woods of mallee gum trees.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Major species in these forests include spotted gum (Corymbia citriodora), bloodwoods (C. trachyphloia, C. intermedia), white mahogany (Eucalyptus acmenoides) and ironbarks (E. siderophloia, E. crebra).
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Much of the remainder of the region is eucalypt woodlands and forests, particularly ironbarks (Eucalyptus crebra and E. melanophloia) on ridges, and E. melanophloia on lower elevations, ranges, and plains.
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Ranges and hills of the region host Eucalyptus crebra and other ironbarks, E. decorticans, Corymbia citriodora, and Acacia catenulata or A. shirleyi.
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The trees on the mountain side looked like bushes, and they were big ironbarks and messmates too.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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