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‖ matagouri|mætəˈgʊərɪ, -ˈgaʊrɪ|
Also matakura, matagory, -gowry.
[Corruption of Maori tumatakuru (Morris Austral Engl.).]
A prickly shrub of New Zealand, Discaria toumatou; = Irishman 2. Also attrib.
1859Otago Gaz. 22 Sept. 280 (Morris) Much of it is encumbered with matakura scrub. 1892W. McHutcheson Camp Life in Fiordland 8 (Morris) Trudging moodily along in Indian file through the matagouri scrub and tussock. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 16 May 39/1 Her [sc. an old ewe's] long wool became entangled in the thorns of a stunted matagory bush. 1939C. Brasch in A. E Currie Cent. Treas. Otago Verse (1949) 100 Alone on the parched rise, inhuman matagowry Dry-green and fibrous. 1958Landfall XII. 18 My hands were thorned with the matagauri from pulling off the finer neck wool. 1962J. Frame Edge of Alphabet xxx. 164 He remembers his last visit up Central..where the matagouri, the ‘spiked plant that does not cry’ grows on the hills among the snow-grass. 1963Times 6 Feb. p. vii/3 What were once harsh, unlovely matagouri flats are now green with lucerne. |