单词 | rimu tree |
释义 | > as lemmasrimu tree 1. A tall evergreen tree of New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinum (family Podocarpaceae), also called red pine. Also attributive, as rimu-pine, rimu tree, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > evergreens > red pine red pine1766 rimu1820 1820 T. Kendall & S. Lee Gram. & Vocab. Lang. N.Z. 165 Ko dímu dímu; A certain tree.] 1820 A. McCrae Jrnl. (1928) 20 Here we found the trees..of that kind called by the natives Demo and Totara. The former resembles the pine and the latter has a leaf like the yew tree. 1835 W. Yate Acct. N.Z. (ed. 2) ii. 40 Rimu... This elegant tree comes to its greatest perfection in shaded woods. 1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. I. xiv. 224 What..can be more delicate than the graceful rimu-pine with pendent branches? 1872 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia vi. iii. 117 He lay couched in a rimu-tree one day. 1900 Longman's Mag. Jan. 232 Feathery rimus, scraggy topped white pines, fern trees. 1923 Science 2 Nov. 341/2 The native forests, many of which have been much depleted of late, consist largely of totari, tawa, remu, matai and beech. 1954 Econ. Geogr. 30 285/2 Stewart Island had a similar cover from which quantities of rimu or red pine (Dacrydium cupressinum) have been cut. 1997 New Scientist 19 Apr. 5/3 Female kakapos, which care for their chicks alone, need rimu fruit in their food in order to come into peak breeding condition. 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees ii. 41 The Podocarpaceae includes the New Zealand conifers: the kahikatea, the matai, the miro, the rimu. < as lemmas |
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