ar·au·car·i·a 
(ăr′ou-kărē-ə)
(ăr′ou-kărē-ə)n.
Any of several evergreen coniferous trees of the genus Araucaria native to South America, Australia, and islands of the southwest Pacific Ocean, having awl-shaped leaves and whorled branches and including Norfolk lsland pine.
[From Spanish Araucaria, (tree) of Arauco, a former province of south-central Chile.]