单词 | korari |
释义 | korarin. New Zealand. The flower stalks of the New Zealand flax, Phormium tenax; also occasionally used for the plant itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > flax plants > New Zealand flax plant or stalk phormium1783 New Zealand flax1789 korari1832 mountain flax1867 sword-flax1871 1832 G. Bennett in London Med. Gaz. 18 Feb. 750/2 Phormium Tenax, or flax plant. Koradi of the natives of New Zealand... This valuable plant is indigenous to New Zealand. 1834 E. Markham N.Z. Recoll. (1963) 44 Koraddy or Flax undrest split green and worked up. 1840 J. S. Polack Manners & Customs New Zealanders I. xvi. 175 The flax (Korari)..is of two or three kinds. 1843 N.Z. Jrnl. No. 92. 177/2 With a piece of kauradi or flax. 1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. iii. 63 The plant is called phormium tenax by naturalists. The general native name for the plant..was korari. 1873 V. Pyke Story Wild Will Enderby (ed. 4) iii. iii. 115 A ‘mohiki’ is constructed of ‘koradies’—Anglice, the flowering stalks of the flax. 1879 J. Barr Old Identities 53 A ‘kolladie’ (the flower-stalk of the flax, about 7 ft long) was carried by each as a balancing pole or staff. 1888 A. H. Duncan Wakatipians ii. 12 We collected all the dried coorraddies (flower stalks of the flax-bush). 1933 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 19 Oct. 15/7 The individual plants are called flax bushes and the dried reed stalks (which Maoris and children tied into bundles to make rafts) are called flax-sticks, koradi sticks, or kraddy sticks. 1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) ii. ix. 238 Children armed with a flax flower stalk (korari) were taught to spar by their parents. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1832 |
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