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countable and uncountable, plural jarrahs
A eucalypt tree of species Eucalyptus marginata, occurring in the southwest of Western Australia, or its wood. quotations examples
The walls were colonial ramparts—logs of jarrah spiked into masonry—with wings as strong as Church buttresses.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Broken-Link Handicap”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 112
In contrast, resistance to root rot fungus in jarrah trees has a significant heritability (Box 5.1), so jarrahs can evolve to resist the introduced dieback.
2002, Richard Frankham, David A. Briscoe, Jonathan D. Ballou, Karina H. McInnes, Introduction to Conservation Genetics, page 103
Right here. At the foot of an enormous old-growth jarrah.
2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, page 8