jarrah

English
Trunk of an old Jarrah tree, Darling Range, Western Australia

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɹə/
  • Rhymes: -æɹə

Noun

jarrah (countable and uncountable, plural jarrahs)

  1. Eucalyptus marginata, a eucalypt tree occurring in the southwest of Western Australia, or its wood.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Broken-Link Handicap’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 112:
      The walls were colonial ramparts—logs of jarrah spiked into masonry—with wings as strong as Church buttresses.
    • 2002, Richard Frankham, David A. Briscoe, Jonathan D. Ballou, Karina H. McInnes, Introduction to Conservation Genetics, page 103
      In contrast, resistance to root rot fungus in jarrah trees has a significant heritability (Box 5.1), so jarrahs can evolve to resist the introduced dieback.
    • 2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, p. 8:
      Right here. At the foot of an enormous old-growth jarrah.

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