deal, native

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


an Australian timber, Nageia elata, F. v. M., N.O. Coniferae.For other vernacular names see quotation.

1869. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 589:

«Pine, white pine, called she-pine in Queensland; native deal,pencil cedar. This tree has an elongated trunk, rarelycylindrical; wood free from knots, soft, close, easily worked,good for joiners' and cabinet-work; some trees afford planks ofgreat beauty. (Macarthur.) Fine specimens of this timber havea peculiar mottled appearance not easily described, and oftenof surpassing beauty.»

[See also pine.]

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