casuarina

From Malay kasuari (“cassowary”), from the resemblance of the leaves to the bird's feathers.

casuarina (plural casuarinas)

1. Any of several trees, of the genus Casuarina, that have segmented stems; especially the ironwood and beefwood
   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III,

     […] the noise made by the beating of the waves on the land and the sighing of the wind amongst the pendulous leaves—or rather pendant fringe of the casuarina or she-oak, those aeolian harps of the Australian bush, almost drowned their voices.