NOUN
- a river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela
How To Use Arauca In A Sentence
- Nay, was not the "Araucana," which Spain acknowledges as its epic, written without even the aid of paper; on scraps of leather, as the stout fighter and voyager snatched any moment from that wild warfare? The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
- The tree's coppicing habit, the way one specimen can have dozens of trunks, means that in places the pines look like a wall of bamboo, rather than relatives of the giant Araucariaceae that line the foreshores of Sydney beaches.
- There are hedges of pittosporum, arbors veiled by passion-flowers, and two of that most beautiful of all living trees, the _araucaria_, or Norfolk Island pine, -- one specimen being some eighty feet high, and said to be the tallest north of the equator. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
- I chalked it up to an excess of vital spirit from the new rooster, Cazimir, a white Araucana, just coming into his powers. The H.D. Chronicles, chapter 1
- For a while I found a little shade below one of the outspread branches of a tall araucaria that grew in the patio, but it was not easy to resist the lure of the street, and I was soon back again, sitting on the roof balustrade. Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos
- Now, here come three together: the 'Araucana' of Don Alonzo de Ercilla, the 'Austriada' of Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
- It is, too, very remarkable that the bunya tree, according to the natives, is nowhere to be met with but in these parts; it is, however, there is no doubt, a species of the araucaria genus, well known in South An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
- It is, too, very remarkable that the bunya tree, according to the natives, is nowhere to be met with but in these parts; it is, however, there is no doubt, a species of the araucaria genus, well known in South An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
- Its araucaria pines, villages dotted with conical-roofed ‘fare’ ceremonial houses and balmy waters are the stuff of postcards.
- Miguel Tapia Huenulef, 45, was arrested as a suspect in an arson attempt perpetrated in January on an estate called San Leandro near the town of Lautaro, in the region of AraucanÃa, over 600 kilometres south of Santiago. Anarkismo.net
