rimu
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of rimu
from Māori
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Golden beams of light broke through densely clustered supplejack vines and rimu trees.
From National Geographic
Vercoe said in an email that much of the success this season was due to the amount of fruit on rimu trees.
From Reuters
The birds breed every few years when the rimu tree fruits.
From Nature
Males “boom” to attract females, and they only breed every three to six years when the native rimu trees “mast”, or produce large numbers of seeds.
From The Guardian
The birds breed only once every two to four years when native rimu trees produce fruit, and this year’s season was expected to be a record length.
From Reuters
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.