kahikatea

British  

/ ˌkaɪkəˈtɪə /

noun

1. Also called: white pine.  a tall New Zealand coniferous tree, Podocarpus dacrydioides, valued for its timber and resin

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Etymology

Origin of kahikatea

Māori

Example Sentences

It was a canoe seventy feet long, five broad, and three deep; the prow raised like that of a Venetian gondola, and the whole hollowed out of a trunk of a kahikatea.

From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules

On the purchased land stands, or lately stood, a small kahikatea bush.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis

The trees, mostly kahikatea, seem to our English eyes of stupendous proportions, but we are told they grow much bigger in many other parts.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by Hay, William Delisle