Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various Australian trees in the genera Casuarina or Allocasuarina.
- noun The wood of one of these trees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Beer made in Australia or other English colonies.
- noun One of various shrubs and trees of the peculiar, chiefly Australian, genus Casuarina.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Toby: it's the one called "she-oak" though that term is not in colloquial usage in Hawaii.
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They had chummed together on the seventy-odd-mile tramp from Melbourne; had boiled a common billy and slept side by side in rain-soaked blankets, under the scanty hair of a she-oak.
Australia Felix 2003
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Casuarina equisetifolia (she-oak) Avicennia officinalis (white mangrove).
Tropic Days 2003
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Here and there stood a solitary she-oak, most doleful of trees, its scraggy, pine-needle foliage bleached to grey.
Australia Felix 2003
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Known as swamp she-oak in its native Australia, Casuarina glauca grows in difficult, saline sites inhospitable to many other trees.
Chapter 20 1990
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I recrossed Batman's Creek, and travelled over thinly-timbered country of box, gum, wattle, and she-oak, with grass three of four feet high.
A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne
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The tree there resembles our common mountain fir: it is exactly like it in the bark; but it is called by the settlers, _the she-oak_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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Near the head of the river, on the point, was a plantation of she-oak.
A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne
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I say, Joan, you remember the old Eight Mile Water-hole on Dingo Flat – middle of the patch of flooded gum and she-oak – that the Blacks used to say had no bottom to it?
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When the wattle-blooms are drooping in the sombre she-oak glade,
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