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karri

karri noun: the tree Eucalyptus diversicolor, native to south-western Western Australia.

Noun

karri (countable and uncountable, plural karris)

  1. The tree Eucalyptus diversicolor, native to south-western Western Australia.
    • As an artist keenly attracted to Western Australian gums, specifically karris and tuarts, van Raalte prioritized imaginative figurations of trees, rather than humans, in his etchings.2018, John C. Ryan, Forest Family: Australian Culture, Art, and Trees, page 104
  2. The hard timber of the karri tree.

Forms of karri

pluralkarris

Questions about karri

What does karri mean?
Karri means the tree Eucalyptus diversicolor, native to south-western Western Australia.
What part of speech is karri?
Karri is a noun.
What is the plural of karri?
The plural of karri is karris.

Words near karri in the dictionary

  1. karrenfelds
  2. karrenfield
  3. karrenfields
  4. Karrer
  5. Karrers
  6. karri
  7. Karrick
  8. Karricks
  9. Karrier
  10. Karriers
  11. karrikin

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