单词 | tumata-kuru |
释义 | tumata-kurun. A spiny, spreading New Zealand shrub, Discaria Toumatou, N.O. Rhamnaceæ, the thorns of which were used by the Maori in tattooing. Also called New Zealand Hawthorn, Wild Irishman, and corruptly matagouri n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > non-British varieties fingrigo1707 cockspura1726 thorny trefoil1760 narra1779 driedoring1824 wild Irishman1850 matagouric1857 tumata-kuru1859 Irishman1860 Jerusalem thorn1866 nabk1874 ilb1894 1859 J. T. Thomson in Otago Gaz. 22 Sept. 264 Much over-run with the scrub called ‘tomata-guru’. 1883 J. Hector Handbk. N.Z. (ed. 3) 131 Tumatakuru, Wild Irishman. A bush or small tree with spreading branches... The spines were used by the Maoris for tatooing. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Tumata-kuru..Tumatagowry, or Matagory is the Southern corruption of contractors, labourers, and others. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1859 |
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