WOLLEMI PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wollemi pine mean? 

• WOLLEMI PINE (noun)
  The noun WOLLEMI PINE has 1 sense:

1. newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned

  Familiarity information: WOLLEMI PINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOLLEMI PINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Wollemi pine" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Wollemi pine" is a member of...):

araucaria family; Araucariaceae; family Araucariaceae (tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae)