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rimu

See also: rìmù

English

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A full-grown rimu

Etymology

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Borrowed from Maori rimu.

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Noun

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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.

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Maori

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Etymology

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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

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rimu

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

Descendants

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  • → English: rimu
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