kapuka

American

[kah-puh-kuh] / ˈkɑ pə kə /

noun

a New Zealand tree, Griselinia littoralis, of the dogwood family, having brown, hairy twigs and small, greenish flowers, grown as an ornamental.

kapuka British

/ kɑːpuːkə /

noun

another name for broadleaf

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Etymology

Origin of kapuka

From Maori

Example Sentences

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But whereas a decade or more ago Kenyan music - through the Kapuka hip-hop genre - was drawing global interest, this has now fallen away.

From BBC

This lake has an outlet into a large stream, which the Pillager Chippewas call Kapuka Sagitawag.

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