NOUN | plant | genus Casuarina | genus of trees and shrubs widely naturalized in southern United States and West Indies |
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Meaning | genus of trees and shrubs widely naturalized in southern United States and West Indies; coextensive with the family Casuarinaceae and order Casuarinales. | |
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Member of | Casuarinaceae, family Casuarinaceae | One genus |
Members | Australian pine, Casuarina equisetfolia | Common Australian tree widely grown as an ornamental in tropical regions |
beefwood | Any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork / cabinetwork | |
casuarina | Any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves | |
she-oak | Any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina | |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | genus casuarina | |
Catalan | genus casuarina |
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