| 释义 |
mingimingi|ˈmɪŋɪmɪŋɪ|
Also mingi.
[Maori.]
An evergreen shrub, Cyathodes acerosa (or C. fasciculata) belonging to the family Epacridaceæ, native to New Zealand, Victoria, and Tasmania, and bearing tiny, green flowers and red or white berries. Cf. micky2.
1889T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 213 The wood of the mingi is of a light-brown colour. 1906T. F. Cheeseman Man. N.Z. Flora 411 C[yathodes] acerosa... Abundant from the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Mingimingi. 1929W. Martin N.Z. Nature Bk. II. viii. 126 The mingi-mingi..is a rigid, pungent-leaved shrub with either white or red berries. 1963Weekly News (Auckland) 10 July 37/3 The small shrub called mingimingi or black teatree is as good as manuka as a source of heat. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. viii. 168 Another shrub mingi is said by Morris to have the form micky in the South Island. This is likely, as the South Island dialects of Maori have k for North Island ng. |