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‖ kowhai N.Z.|ˈkɔːfaɪ, ˈkəʊhaɪ|
Also kowai, kohai, goai.
[Maori.]
An evergreen shrub or small tree, Sophora tetraptera, of the family Leguminosæ, native to New Zealand and bearing racemes of yellow flowers.
1831G. Bennett in London Med. Gaz. 12 Nov. 182/1 Sophora tetraptera... This tree is the Kowhy, or Kongia, of the natives, and attains the height of from forty to fifty feet. 1845E. J. Wakefield Adv. N. Zeal. I. 58 (Morris) The kohai..with bright yellow blossoms. 1860J. Blair N. Zeal. (ibid.), The land of the goai tree. 1872A. Domett Ranolf vi. i. 107 Amohia,..scarlet-crowned with Kowhai-flowers. 1883Renwick Betrayed 42 Gather the kowhai, wet with showers. 1896R. Kipling Seven Seas 113 Buy the kowhai's gold Flung for gift on Taupo's face. 1897D. McK. Wright Station Ballads 123 There are dreams in the gold of the kowhai. 1926Trans. N.Z. Inst. LVI. 670 ‘Kowhai’ went through many stages—‘goa’, ‘gohi’, etc., before settling to the two forms ‘kowhai’ in the North and ‘gowhai’ or ‘gowai’ in the South. 1947O. Ruhen in Coast to Coast 1946 1 Old gold blossom freckled the untidy lattice of brown boughs that the kowhais threw up on the top of the bank. 1952‘J. Guthrie’ Paradise Bay i. 12 In a kowhai bush, among the yellow beak-shaped blossom. 1966New Statesman 16 Dec. 915/3 The beach itself is sheltered by..bush patched with yellow and gold kowhai bloom and white clematis. |