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Meanings of black mangrove in English

An Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida.

        A mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground.

              Usage of black mangrove in English
              1
              By the sides of the creeks, especially nigh the sea, there grow a few small black mangrove-trees.
              Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier
              2
              The black mangrove grows larger here than in the West Indies, and of it they make good plank.
              A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
              3
              In a slight depression at the base of a clump of black mangrove roots my light caught a torn strip of yellow plastic first.
              A killing night
              4
              They cut it in thin strips and hung it over the fire of the black mangrove, which is one of the smokiest woods on earth.
              Dick in the Everglades
              5
              To the west the black mangroves grew thicker, almost like a wall.
              A killing night
              6
              But here the wood which hid the margin was altogether of mangrove; the common Rhizophoras, or black mangroves, being, of course, the most abundant.
              At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies
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