kahikatea

/ ˌkaɪkəˈtɪə /

noun

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of kahikatea¹

Māori

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Example Sentences

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

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This timber is known in all the provinces, except Otago, by the native name of `kahikatea'.

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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.

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

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kahawai bird kahikatoa

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