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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Mythology A male figure in Polynesian myth, sometimes identified as the first man.
  2. n. A wooden or stone image of a Polynesian god.
  3. n. A Maori figurine representing an ancestor, often intricately carved from greenstone and worn about the neck as a talisman.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A Polynesian deity, generally regarded as the creator of man.
  2. n. [lowercase] A carved image or representation of the god Tiki, especially one of the large carved wooden pillars set up at the tombs of chiefs and infltiential men.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the south Pacific Ocean.

Etymologies

  1. From Maori tiki. (Wiktionary)
  2. Maori. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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