Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A eucalyptus tree (Eucalyptus marginata) of Australia, valued commercially for its hard red-brown wood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Eucalyptus marginata, or mahogany gum-tree, abounding in southwestern Australia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The mahoganylike wood of the Australian
Eucalyptus marginata . Seeeucalyptus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
eucalypt tree occurring in the south west ofWestern Australia . - noun The wood of the jarrah tree.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mr Pearce says the Federation is considering legal options to stop the company from using the word 'jarrah' to sell its timber.
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"We will be looking at ways that we can (legally protect the 'jarrah' name) and I believe that we can."
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But he traveled here primarily for the opening of his own mini-retrospective of five painted and unpainted steel constructions on the Met's Roof Garden (to Oct. 30), ranging over his career from the 1960 "Midday" (above) to his brand new "End Up": "End Up," 2010, rusted steel, cast iron, jarrah wood, collection of the artist, courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Lee Rosenbaum: British Art Royalty: Sir Anthony Caro Rules the Roof Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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But he traveled here primarily for the opening of his own mini-retrospective of five painted and unpainted steel constructions on the Met's Roof Garden (to Oct. 30), ranging over his career from the 1960 "Midday" (above) to his brand new "End Up": "End Up," 2010, rusted steel, cast iron, jarrah wood, collection of the artist, courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Lee Rosenbaum: British Art Royalty: Sir Anthony Caro Rules the Roof Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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In " Head " 2008-09, heavy jarrah wood beams are stacked into a formidable, primitive altar that recalls the nose of a locomotive, a huge face and the aerial view of a ship ' s deck.
Enigmatic Bits and Pieces Lance Esplund 2010
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We're now into debate about what the various woods are: jarrah (a reddish West Australian hardwood) is easy, but opinions vary about the others.
Journal for 22 November Alex Allan 2009
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They'd sneak inside without shoes and at the end of the day their soles would be black because those jarrah board floors happily gave up some of their ingrained generations of oil...
And bliss is... Glenda Larke 2009
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They'd sneak inside without shoes and at the end of the day their soles would be black because those jarrah board floors happily gave up some of their ingrained generations of oil...
Archive 2009-05-01 Glenda Larke 2009
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One of the most serious current threats to the natural vegetation of Southwest Australia is the spread of root disease, or "jarrah dieback" caused by the root fungus Phytophthora cinnamomi.
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The disease was first noticed in the jarrah forests in 1940 but not identified until 1965.
reesetee commented on the word jarrah
Anglicized adaptation of jerryhl, the native name in West Australia for the mahogany gum-tree (Eucalyptus marginata); also the timber of this tree, remarkable for its durability.
October 21, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word jarrah
"Down the middle of the yard, from the house to the back pickets, was a tin fence which cut the yard in half. The wooden frame was jarrah; it smelt of gum and was the colour of sunburn."
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 44 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition
March 27, 2010