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‖ titoki|tiːˈtɔki|
[Native Maori name.]
A New Zealand tree, Alectryon excelsum, N.O. Sapindaceæ, producing tough, crooked timber, and bearing panicles of reddish flowers, with leaves like those of the ash. Also called New Zealand Oak and New Zealand Ash. Also attrib.
1845E. J. Wakefield Adv. in N.Z. II. xii. 317 The berry of the titoki tree might also be turned to account. 1872A. Domett Ranolf xvi. 253 The youth, with hands beneath his head, Against a great titoki's base. |