(n.) A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.
Example Sentences:
(1) An Aboriginal man who died in hospital after attempting suicide in Casuarina Prison near Perth, Western Australia , had been assessed as being an at-risk prisoner after repeatedly threatening self-harm but had not been placed in a “safe” cell.
(2) In the casuarina forest, adequate moisture and organic matter and a protecting litter layer provide a mesic environment.
(3) On 6 March 2013, 20-year-old Jayden Stafford Bennell was found hanged in a communal area in his unit at Casuarina; and on 22 October 2014, the day before the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, promised to review WA’s incarceration of Aboriginal people in response to the death of 22-year-old Yamatji woman Julieka Dhu, 31-year-old Aubrey Wallam committed suicide in his cell, also reportedly by hanging.
(4) The sequences obtained were closest (with 5 or 6 substitutions) to those of Frankia alni and those of Casuarina-infective Frankia strains, respectively.
(5) Unlike other actinorhizal root nodules, vesicles are not produced by the endophyte in Casuarina nodules.
(6) Indigenous man dies five days after attempting suicide in prison in Western Australia Read more The inspector of custodial services, Neil Morgan, said in a 2014 report that Casuarina was “doing a decent job with stretched resources” but raised issues of overcrowding – the population was then only 631 – and prisoner boredom.
(7) High molecular genomic DNAs were isolated by using the lysozyme plus achromopeptidase system from Frankia strains At4, Ccol and Hr16, the root nodule endophytes of Alnus, Casuarina and Hippophae respectively, and used to construct genomic libraries in pLAFR1, a broad host range cosmid vector within many gram-negative hosts.
(8) These differences were more pronounced among Elaeagnus-compatible strains than among Alnus- or Casuarina-compatible strains.
(9) According to figures provided by the Department of Corrective Services, 15 of the 24 deaths in WA prison system since 1 January 2013 occurred at Casuarina, and of those six have been provisionally attributed to suicide.
(10) On the day of the Perth protests an Indigenous man died at Casuarina prison, and a coronial inquiry into the death of Maureen Mandijarra in a Broome police cell in 2012 was delayed because police did not provide a mandatory investigation file.
(11) All four deaths occurred after the Department of Corrective Services advertised a $5m construction contract to minimise the number of ligature points at Casuarina prison.
(12) Addressing Ms Dhu’s mother directly, Barnett said: “I promise you, whatever the truth is we will find it and I am very sorry for your loss.” The protests come on the same day WA corrective services begin investigating the death of an Aboriginal man in Casuarina prison .
(13) The effect of the partial pressure of oxygen (PO2) on the formation of vesicles, which are thought to be the site of N2 fixation in Frankia, was studied in HFPCcI3, an effective isolate from Casuarina cunninghamiana.
(14) Seven of the 24 were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people, and of that group, six were at Casuarina.
(15) All three recent Aboriginal deaths at Casuarina occurred after it advertised a two-year, $5m construction project to reduce the number of hanging points in the prison, as part of the department’s Ligature Minimisation Program.
(16) The opposition corrections spokesman, Paul Papalia, agreed, saying “the footprint at Casuarina hasn’t changed, and the footprint inside the fence was designed for 397 prisoners”.
(17) Thermophilous fungi averaged 33 per gram dry soil in the casuarina forest and increased to 943 per gram in the insolated soil of the coconut grove.
(18) There have been three deaths in custody in WA since Ms Dhu’s death, and at least one – the suicide of 31-year-old Noongar man, Mr Wallam, at Casuarina prison on 22 October – was an Aboriginal death in custody.
(19) This study focuses on the characteristics displayed by mesophilous and thermophilous microfungal populations occurring in two tropical monodominant plant communities, a Cocos nucifera grove and a Casuarina equisetifolia forest, that provide distinctly different edaphic conditions.
(20) The patterns were remarkably similar for the five Frankia strains isolated from Allocasuarina and Casuarina host plants and differed from those of Frankia strains isolated from Comptonia and Hippophaë host plants.
Ironwood
Definition:
(n.) A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lowest readings Friday morning were in the Upper Peninsula, including zero degrees in Ironwood and 1 degree (-17C) in Iron Mountain.