Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as imoupine.

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  • noun A large evergreen conifer native to New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinum

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  • noun tall New Zealand timber tree

Etymologies

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From Maori

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Examples

  • One scholarly urge to identify the biblical unicorn with the Assyrian aurochs springs from a similarity between the Assyrian word rimu and the Hebrew word re’em.

    Creationists on the Square in Madison, Wisconsin - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • They prepare a piece of "rimu" (red pine) about three inches long, by an inch broad, and a quarter of an inch thick.

    The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

  • I had heard there were some issues with the rimu wood splitting due to the temperature extremes in the Canadian climate.

    My Wednesday (on a Friday) - And She Knits Too! 2009

  • I had heard there were some issues with the rimu wood splitting due to the temperature extremes in the Canadian climate.

    May 2009 2009

  • The common podocarps are: rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), thin-barked totara (Podocarpus hallii), miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea), and kohekoe (Dysoxylum spectabile).

    Northland temperate kauri forests 2008

  • The uniform canopy is dominated by broadleaf species, mainly kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa) and tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), with some emergent podocarps (e.g., rimu and matai).

    Northland temperate forests 2008

  • The dominant lowland trees are rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa), and southern rata or ironwood (Metrosideros umbellata).

    Rakiura Island temperate forests 2008

  • Tall podocarp trees (rimu, miro, Hall's totara) then succeed and the end point of this sequence can be found on the higher glacial outwash surfaces (around 25,000 years old); here the extremely leached, infertile soils can only support a stunted heath and bog vegetation.

    Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand 2008

  • Catlins Forest Park contains rimu-dominant podocarp forest, as well as New Zealand's southernmost stand of silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii).

    Southland temperate forests 2007

  • In the lowland areas podocarps and hardwoods were predominant with kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) growing in swampy areas and rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) on drier sites.

    Southland temperate forests 2007

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