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单词 raurekau
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raurekaun.

Brit. /raʊˈreɪkaʊ/, U.S. /raʊˈreɪkaʊ/, New Zealand English /rʌuˈreːkʌu/, /ræuˈræekæu/
Forms: 1800s– raurekau, 1800s– raurikau, 1900s– raurakau, 1900s– raureka.
Origin: A borrowing from Maori. Etymon: Maori raurēkau.
Etymology: < Maori raurēkau. Compare also Maori raurākau in the same sense.In quot. 1843 apparently misinterpreting the prefixed Maori indefinite article he as part of the noun.
New Zealand.
A small New Zealand evergreen tree, Coprosma australis (family Rubiaceae), with small white flowers and orange-red berries.
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1843 N.Z. Jrnl. 4 216 We made a meal of some tuées roasted in the leaf of a tree called heraurekau.]
1892 T. Kelly Narr. Journey through Upper Waitara Valley 3 [The eels] are then covered with the broad leaves of the raurikau (or bullock's kai as it was known by the earlier settlers).
1905 W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 254 Pork..alternated with stacks of eels enclosed in wrappings of ‘raurekau’ leaves.
1949 Landfall 3 31 He stumbled through a jungle of raureka and gorse.
1985 Bot. Gaz. 146 417/2 Raurekau is present on this site as young canopy plants up to 5 yr old but elsewhere is a common understory plant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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