Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Australian tree, Melaleuca Leucadendron; also, a tree of any species of the allied genus Collistemon: all so called because theirs bark peels off in layers.
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Examples
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At the very end loomed an ancient paper-bark tree, about fifty metres high, and someone had climbed way up into the foliage and tied a rope over the bough that hangs out over the water.
Clovers in her hair Brentley Frazer 2012
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Fothergilla, amelanchier, styrax japonicus, paper-bark maple, viburnums of all kinds, a 'green man' from Bamberg mine's from Norwich Cathedral.
FOTHERGILLA 'BLUE SHADOW' Pooky 2008
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Here in January it became necessary to repair the roof of the boat-shed, and to keep the ridge covering of paper-bark in position, two long saplings were tied parallel with the ridge pole.
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When the moon is on the other side of the world, with spears and flaring torches of paper-bark, he rushes in a band to raid the reef, to the dismay of startled and bewildered fish.
Tropic Days 2003
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Few of the forest trees are more picturesque than the paper-bark or tea-tree (MELALEUCA LEUCADENDRON), the “Tee-doo” of the blacks.
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Let us sing the rosellas who buckle under branches for the paper-bark blossom, and the far distant shadows on slate-roofs.
Unmanned Stephen Oliver
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Crossed at seven and a half miles large creek with oaks, gums, paper-bark trees.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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Gums, palms, and the paper-bark trees at six and three-quarter miles.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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Afterwards the arm-bone is wrapt up in paper-bark and wound round with fur-string, so as to make a torpedo-shaped parcel, which is kept by
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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Scald a two-inch piece of paper-bark cinnamon with the milk to be used in making the cocoa.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes Janet McKenzie Hill 1892
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