jarrah
/ˈd͡ʒæɹə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.35 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A eucalypt tree of species Eucalyptus marginata, occurring in the southwest of Western Australia.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Right here. At the foot of an enormous old-growth jarrah."
- "The walls were colonial ramparts—logs of jarrah spiked into masonry—with wings as strong as Church buttresses."