puriri

British  

/ puːˈriːriː /

noun

1. a forest tree, Vitex lucens, of New Zealand, having red berries and glossy green leaves and yielding a durable dark brown timber

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Example Sentences

So they all ran off and collected puriri berries, big purply red ones, rather squashy.

From Piccaninnies by Peacocke, Isabel Maud

Therefore, we elected to go in for puriri.

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

The chief had grown old and sick, and he sat every day for two years on a fallen puriri near the white man's pah, but he never entered it.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

Of course, the material of the building is entirely kauri timber, with the exception of the chimneys, which are of brick, and the piles, hidden from sight, which are of puriri wood.

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

Much of this is heavily timbered with valuable kauri and puriri.

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