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matipo N.Z.|ˈmætɪpəʊ|
Also matapo.
[Maori.]
Either of two New Zealand evergreen trees, Pittosporum tenuifolium, of the family Pittosporaceæ, which is also called black matipo and bears clusters of purple flowers, or Myrsine australis, the red matipo (see mapau).
1866M. A. Barker Let. in Station Life N.Z. (1870) 94 Varieties of matapo, a beautiful shrub, each leaf a study, with its delicate tracery of black veins on a yellow-green ground. 1879J. B. Armstrong in Trans. N.Z. Inst. XII. 329 The tipau or matipo, Pittosporum tenuifolium..makes the best ornamental hedge I know of. 1921H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira vii. 51 Later, appeared slender matapo (Pittosporum tenuifolium). 1960N. Hilliard Maori Girl ii. xiii. 152 Henry commented on the legs of the girls: ‘Too thin! Like matipo.’ |