1) Conifer 2) Coniferous tree 3) Living fossil
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Araucaria is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae. There are 19 extant species in the genus, with a Gondwanan natural distribution in New Caledonia (where 13 species are endemic), Norfolk Island, eastern Australia, New Guinea, Argentina, Chile, and southern Brazil. Araucaria are mainly large trees with a massive erect ...
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[software] Araucaria is an argument mapping software tool developed in 2001 by Chris Reed and Glenn Rowe, in the Argumentation Research Group at the School of Computing in the University of Dundee, Scotland. It is designed to visually represent arguments through diagrams that can be used for analysis and stored in Argument Markup Language (...
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• (n.) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.
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a genus of pinelike coniferous plants in the family Araucariaceae. The trees are magnificent evergreens, with apparently whorled branches and stiff, ...
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(Bunya Bunya Pine Of Queensland, Chilean Pine, Hoop Pine, Monkey-Puzzle, Norfolk Island Pine) These evergreen trees are natives of Australia, South America, New Guinea, New Caledonia and Norfolk Island. A. araucana (Monkey Puzzle Tree or Chilean Pine) is native of southern Chile and Tierra del Fuego. In the U.S., it is hardy in mild climates and on...
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<botany> A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible. ... Origin: Araucania, a territory south of Chili....
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Ar`au·ca'ri·a noun [
Araucania , a territory south of Chili.]
(Botany) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three ...
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Araucaria is a genus of Coniferae with evergreen leaves, of a singularly geometric habit of growth, belonging to the southern hemisphere. The species are large trees with pretty large, stiff, flattened, and generally imbricated leaves, verticillate spreading branches, and bearing large cones, each scale having a single large seed. The species best ...
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n] - any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds
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noun any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds
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Coniferous tree related to the firs, with flat, scalelike needles. Once widespread, it is now native only to the southern hemisphere. Some grow to gigantic size. Araucarias include the monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana), the Australian bunya bunya pine (A. bidwillii), and the Norfolk Island pine (
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any of several coniferous trees of the genus Araucaria, of warm regions. Cf.
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