pohutukawa

British  

/ pəˌhuːtəˈkɑːwə /

noun

1. a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood

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Etymology

Origin of pohutukawa

from Māori

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Example Sentences

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pohutukawa

But Kiwis also celebrate in an antipodean manner, with barbeques on beaches fringed by the native pohutukawa tree, which blooms only at Christmas.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2021

Ringed by golden beaches and temperate Pacific seas, Kaitaia is unconscionably pretty, dotted with flaming red pohutukawa trees and blessed by year-round blue skies.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2017

On the western slopes of Albert Park next to the Auckland Art Gallery, the ancient pohutukawa trees are readying their Christmas blooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

At a short distance inland, and especially bordering salt-water inlets, the traveller is surprised and charmed by groups of the pohutukawa, a tree thus named by the Maoris.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou

There they see a mass of sea-weed floating on the water, its roots hidden in the depth, its upper branches clinging to a pohutukawa tree.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer

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