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Definition of "she-oak" []

  • One of various shrubs and trees of the peculiar, chiefly Australian, genus Casuarina. (noun)
  • Beer made in Australia or other English colonies. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "she-oak" in a sentence
  • "Toby: it's the one called "she-oak" though that term is not in colloquial usage in Hawaii."
  • "They had chummed together on the seventy-odd-mile tramp from Melbourne; had boiled a common billy and slept side by side in rain-soaked blankets, under the scanty hair of a she-oak."
  • "Here and there stood a solitary she-oak, most doleful of trees, its scraggy, pine-needle foliage bleached to grey."
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