axe-breaker

noun

1. an Australian oleaceous tree, Notelaea longifolia, yielding very hard timber

Example Sentences

They do see the top of a solitary tree with one branch broken off, rising above the plain at about two miles’ distance; and they can tell it to be the well-known species called quebracha—an abbreviation of quebrahacha, or “axe-breaker,” so named from the hardness of its wood.

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