ARAUCARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does araucaria mean? 

• ARAUCARIA (noun)
  The noun ARAUCARIA has 1 sense:

1. any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds

  Familiarity information: ARAUCARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARAUCARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("araucaria" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "araucaria"):

Araucaria araucana; chile pine; monkey puzzle (large Chilean evergreen conifer having intertwined branches and bearing edible nuts)

Araucaria excelsa; Araucaria heterophylla; norfolk island pine (evergreen of Australia and Norfolk Island in the South Pacific)

Araucaria columnaris; new caledonian pine (very tall evergreen of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides similar to norfolk island pine)

Araucaria bidwillii; bunya bunya; bunya bunya tree (Australian conifer bearing two-inch seeds tasting like roasted chestnuts; among the aborigines the tree is hereditary property protected by law)

Araucaria cunninghamii; hoop pine; Moreton Bay pine (pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood)

Holonyms ("araucaria" is a member of...):

genus Araucaria (a genus of the araucaria family)

 Context examples 

There is a dry bituminous wood upon the plateau—a species of araucaria, according to our botanist—which is always used by the Indians for torches.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)