pear, native

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

name given to a timber-tree, Xylomelum pyriforme, Sm., N.O. Proteaceae(called also Wooden Pear), and to Hakea acicularis.See Hakea.


1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (edition 1855), p. 219:

«The pear-tree is, I believe, an eucalyptus, and bears a pearof solid wood, hard as heart of oak.»

[It is not a eucalypt.]

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