Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Western Australia, a gigantic tree, Eucalyptus diversicolor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The tree Eucalyptus diversicolor, native to south-western
Western Australia - noun The hard timber from the karri tree.
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Examples
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There's a giant karri that has a firewatching tower near the top.
Really big trees... Glenda Larke 2008
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There's a giant karri that has a firewatching tower near the top.
Archive 2008-09-01 Glenda Larke 2008
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The karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) is one of the largest trees on Earth.
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The region's flagship tree species include three eucalypts: jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata), marri (E. calophylla), and karri (E. diversicolor).
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While jarrah and marri grow to only about 20-30 meters in height, some karri forests have canopies up to 70 meters high, and individual trees may grow as high as 80 meters, ranking the karri as one of the tallest trees on earth.
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In the karri forests, the most important families are Fabaceae, Mimosaceae, Orchidaceae, Myrtaceae, and Proteaceae.
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Fire management is an integral part of silviculture practice in karri and jarrah forests.
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The high rains supports forests of karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) and tingle (E. brevistylis, E. jacksonii, and E. guilfoylei), shifting to jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) and marri (Eucalyptus calophylla) in areas with lower nutrient soils.
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A number of restricted range birds are found in this ecoregion, including the red-eared firetail (Stagonopleura oculata) which inhabits karri/tingle forest and creeklines and the white-breasted robin (Eopsaltria georgiana) which can also be found in karri and tingle forest.
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In total, a survey of the karri forest and adjacent vegetation communities in this ecoregion reported nearly 2,000 taxa.
knitandpurl commented on the word karri
"It's the smell of a karri forest rising into the sky and the bodies of roos and possums returning to the earth as carbon and the cooking smell falling through the dimness like this."
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 184 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition
April 1, 2010