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  • noun Plural form of casuarina.

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Examples

  • The Frankia that inhabits root nodules of actinorrhizal plants, such as casuarinas and alders, was first isolated and cultured from alders only in 1978.

    3. The Plants 1984

  • Set out on a table-top were two of the adobe nests of mason wasps attached to the dried carcass of a lizard, the wings of a pardelote and a frogmouth, something like a nightjar, and a row of the cone-like seeds of casuarinas, which Wolseley had been drawing repeatedly for months.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Derek Walcott's lyricism is on full show, from the piercing insights of "Elsewhere" to the sense of wonder and craftsmanship to be found in "The Bounty"--"Never get used to this; the feathery swaying casuarinas,/the morning silent light on shafts of bright grass".

    Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Set out on a table-top were two of the adobe nests of mason wasps attached to the dried carcass of a lizard, the wings of a pardelote and a frogmouth, something like a nightjar, and a row of the cone-like seeds of casuarinas, which Wolseley had been drawing repeatedly for months.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Much of the forest has already been replaced by fire-resistant casuarinas or eucalypts and extensive deciduous scrub.

    Sumba deciduous forests 2008

  • We took our chairs out under the casuarinas beside the football pitch.

    Matric Blues Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Subsequent reforestation using a scale-resistant strain has returned the cedar to roughly ten percent of its former abundance, though these efforts have been hampered by the introduction of fast-growing casuarinas and other exotics into much of the cedar habitat.

    Bermuda subtropical conifer forests 2007

  • We took our chairs out under the casuarinas beside the football pitch.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Families picnic on mengkuang mats under the casuarinas, opening packages of brown paper.

    Archive 2004-12-01 Sharon Bakar 2004

  • Families picnic on mengkuang mats under the casuarinas, opening packages of brown paper.

    Another Christmas In Batu Ferringhi Sharon Bakar 2004

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