rimu

See also: rìmù

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːmuː/

Etymology 1

Noun

rimu (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of limu (“edible algae”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori rimu.

A full-grown rimu

Noun

rimu (plural rimus or rimu)

1. A large evergreen conifer native to New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinum.
   • 1928, Leonard Cockayne, The Vegetation of New Zealand, 2011 digitally printed edition, Cambridge University Press, page 164,

     In the Western District, at the present time, there is a great deal of rimu forest (Fig. 38) and the rimu is particularly tall, but not of excessive girth.

   • 2009 January 31, Susan Gough Henly, “Paddling in New Zealand’s nirvana”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     Leaving the kayaks at Onetahuti Beach, Maori for “to run along the sand,” we amble along the beach before climbing over a lush headland, dense with kawa kawa trees, rimu pine, silver ferns and flowering tea-trees, to view the sweeping beach in front of the Awaroa estuary.

   • 2012, Stephen J. Simpson, David Raubenheimer, The Nature of Nutrition, Princeton University Press, page 164,

     A reliable indicator of whether in a given year the birds^[kakapo] will breed is the abundance of fruits of podocarp trees such as rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), which are the principal food used by females for rearing the young.

Derived terms

• mountain rimu (Lepidothamnus laxifolius)

Translations

Dacrydium cupressinum

• French: rimu (fr) m
• German: Rimu m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Rimu (tree) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dacrydium cupressinum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Dacrydium cupressinum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Muir, Rumi, muri

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Oceanic *limut, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limut, doublet of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut (compare Malay lumut).

Noun

rimu

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta)
2. a large tree native to New Zealand (Dacrydium cupressinum); see English rimu.

Descendants

• → English: rimu