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araucaria family

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Noun1.araucaria family - tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leavesaraucaria family - tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae
gymnosperm family - a family of gymnosperms
Coniferales, order Coniferales - profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves
Wollemi pine - newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned
genus Araucaria - a genus of the araucaria family
Agathis, genus Agathis - kauri pine


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Emblematic of the south is a branch of a pine tree, from the Araucaria family, which grows in Patagonia, and a sheepskin symbolizing the sheep ranchers who contributed to the annihilation of southern tribes.
 
 
 
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