belahn.
/ˈbiːlə/ The Australian name for various trees, chiefly of the genus Casuarina; also the wood of these trees.
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tallow-tree1704
rata1773
rosewood1779
red mahogany1798
ironbark1799
wild orange1802
red gum1803
rewarewa1817
red cedar1818
black-butted gum1820
Huon pine1820
miro1820
oak1821
horoeka1831
hinau1832
maire1832
totara1832
blackbutt1833
marri1833
raspberry jam tree1833
kohekohe1835
puriri1835
tawa1839
hickory1840
whau1840
pukatea1841
titoki1842
butterbush1843
iron gum1844
York gum1846
mangeao1848
myall1848
ironheart1859
lilly-pilly1860
belah1862
flindosa1862
jarrah1866
silky oak1866
teak of New South Wales1866
Tolosa-wood1866
turmeric-tree1866
walking-stick palm1869
tooart1870
queenwood1873
tarairi1873
boree1878
yate1880
axe-breaker1884
bangalay1884
coachwood1884
cudgerie1884
feather-wood1884
forest mahogany1884
maiden's blush1884
swamp mahogany1884
tallow-wood1884
teak of New Zealand1884
wandoo1884
heartwood1885
ivorywood1887
Jimmy Low1887
Burdekin plum1889
corkwood1889
pigeon-berry ash1889
red beech1889
silver beech1889
turnip-wood1891
black bean1895
red bean1895
pinkwood1898
poplar1898
rose mahogany1898
quandong1908
lancewood1910
New Zealand honeysuckle1910
Queensland walnut1919
mahogany gum1944
Australian mahogany1948
1862 H. Kendall Poems & Songs 14 A voice in the beela grows wild in its wail.
1868 J. A. B. Meta 19 Blazing fire of beal.
1873 W. H. L. Ranken Dominion Austral. vi. 110 These scrubs..sometimes crown the watersheds as ‘belar’.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xix. 188 Mulga trees, and belar.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Sept. 28/2 The casuarinas—she-oak, silky oak, belar, forest oak and creek or river oak—are all valuable for foilage, timber and bark.
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xiv. 118 Plenty of timber: wilga, box, cypress, pine, and belah.
1944 F. D. Davison in Coast to Coast 1943 228 The line of wallaby snares in the belah scrub at the back of his selection.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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