a. and sb. [f. prec. + -AN.] A. adj. Of or belonging to the genus Araucaria. B. sb. A species of this or some closely allied genus.
1854. H. Miller, Test. Rocks, iii. (1857), 135. The youth of the earth … was a youth of dusk and tangled forests, of huge pines and stately Araucarians.
1862. Dana, Man. Geol., 334. The Araucarian pines.
