wollemi pine

1. 1.

   newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned

   Broaderconifer

   Part ofAraucariaceae

Questions about wollemi pine

What does wollemi pine mean?

wollemi pine means "newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned".

Is wollemi pine a common word?

wollemi pine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.