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語源

The tree's bark has horizontal bands resembling hoops (compare image).

名詞

hoop pine (plural hoop pines)

1. Araucaria cunninghamii, a tree of eastern Australia and New Guinea. [from 19th c.]
   • 1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 6:

     The key colour is green, and of a particular density: the green of mangroves along the riverbanks, of Moreton Bay figs, of the big trees that are natives of this corner of Queensland, the shapely hoop-pines and bunyas that still dominate the skyline along every river.

   • 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press 2023, p. 27:

     Kerry floated on her back in the Caledonian River, looking skyward through the limbs of Granny Ava's hoop pine.

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