she-oak

any of various Australian trees of the genus Casuarina See casuarina

Word Origin for she-oak

C18 she (in the sense: inferior) + oak

It was not a cheerful night, for the wind had risen, and was moaning among the she-oak trees like a million lost spirits.

A Crime of the Under-seas |Guy Boothby
The wind whistled dismally through the she-oak trees in the scrub and moaned along the valley.

Sheilah McLeod |Guy Boothby
The night wind sighed a soothing lullaby through the spines of the she-oak, and his spirit passed peacefully away with the ebb.

The Book of the Bush |George Dunderdale
They jumped up and climbed the bank, while I perched on the she-oak roots over the water to be out of sight as they passed.

Over the Sliprails |Henry Lawson

Near the head of the river, on the point, was a plantation of she-oak.

A Source Book Of Australian History |Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne