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jar·rah

(jăr′ə)

A eucalyptus tree (Eucalyptus marginata) of Australia, valued commercially for its hard red-brown wood.

[Nyungar (Pama-Nyungan language of southwest Australia) jaril^y.]

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jarrah

(ˈdʒærə)

(Plants) a widely planted Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus marginata, that yields a valuable timber

[from a native Australian language]

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jar•rah

(ˈdʒær ə)

n.

1. a hardwood tree, Eucalyptus marginata, of W Australia.

2. the wood of this tree.

[1865–70; < Nyungar (Australian Aboriginal language of SW Western Australia) jaril]

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We set the men at work felling trees, selecting for the purpose jarrah, a hard, weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by.

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That night they camped upon a rocky plateau which was sparsely wooded with jarrah, and here once again they were visited by the weird, nocturnal apparition that had already filled them with a nameless terror.

Beneath a jarrah tree on the stony plateau on the northern edge of the Sto-lu country in the land that Time forgot, he lies in a lonely grave marked by a rough headstone.