Definition of "paperbark" []

• Any of several Australian plants, of the genus Melaleuca, that have flaky bark (noun)

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• "Brackish and freshwater wetlands behind mangrove areas in Cambodia and the Mekong delta area of Vietnam typically are dominated by dense stands of Meleuca leucadendron called the paperbark swamps or rear mangrove communities."
• "Native species have recolonised, and now blackbirds forage among mouldering leaves of New World tulip trees, maples, paperbark birches and red oaks that decay into the soil alongside Old World durmast oak, alder, ash and rowan fallen foliage."
• "As they climbed higher, the last of the paperbark trees gave way wholly to evergreens."