Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Related to or having the characters of the genus Araucaria.
- noun A tree of the genus Araucaria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to, or of the nature of, the
Araucaria .
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Examples
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One of those fossil trees, -- a noble araucarian, -- which occurs in what is known as the Granton quarry, is a mere fragment, for it wants both root and top, and yet what remains is sixty-one feet in length by six feet in diameter; and beside it there lies a smaller araucarian, also mutilated, for it wants top and branches, and _it_ measures seventy feet in length by four feet in diameter.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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