tarwood


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Noun1.tarwood - New Zealand shrub
Dacrydium bidwilli, Halocarpus bidwilli, New Zealand mountain pine, tar-wood
genus Halocarpus, Halocarpus - dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium
conifer, coniferous tree - any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
2.tarwood - New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes
Dacrydium colensoi, tar-wood
Dacrydium, genus Dacrydium - Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs
conifer, coniferous tree - any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
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Living amongst the indigenous people at Port Stephens in 1795 were four escaped convicts, led by a man called Tarwood, who had washed up there in the boat they had pirated from Port Jackson in October 1790.
'... The investigation of the coast had not been greatly extended ...': circumstance and chance on the periphery in the exploration of the New South Wales Coast, 1795-1840
John Hansen of KPMG was appointed administrator of pub chains CDC Leisure Ltd and Tarwood Limited on Tuesday, three years after the directors of the companies bought the venues for a reported pounds 13million.
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