jarrah

Noun

jarrah (countable and uncountable, plural jarrahs)

1. A eucalypt tree of species Eucalyptus marginata, occurring in the southwest of Western Australia.
   • In contrast, resistance to root rot fungus in jarrah trees has a significant heritability (Box 5.1), so jarrahs can evolve to resist the introduced dieback.2002, Richard Frankham, David A. Briscoe, Jonathan D. Ballou, Karina H. McInnes, Introduction to Conservation Genetics, page 103
   • Right here. At the foot of an enormous old-growth jarrah.2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, page 8
2. The wood of this tree.
   • The walls were colonial ramparts—logs of jarrah spiked into masonry—with wings as strong as Church buttresses.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Broken-Link Handicap”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 112

   Synonyms:

   jarrahwood