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ironbark

/ahy-ern-bahrk/US // ˈaɪ ərnˌbɑrk //UK // (ˈaɪənˌbɑːk) //

铁树皮,铁皮,铁树,铁皮石斛

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.

Examples

  • IRONBARK was the codename for just one source: Oleg Penkovsky.

  • Pressed, Carter replied that the agency had drawn on a number of sources, “including our IRONBARK sources.”

  • Good-bye, George, old man; I'm sorry we can't wire in with you; we'd soon knock out those posts and rails on the ironbark range.'

  • Through dismal ironbark forests that looked as black by night as if all the tree-trunks were cast-iron and the leaves gun-metal.

  • See, there is a good place, under that silver leaf ironbark, where it is rather dark.

  • To-day I took my old course to the north-west, and passed a scrubby Ironbark forest, and flat openly-timbered forest land.

  • The latter abound in the silver-leaved Ironbark forest, where the grass has been recently burned.