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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A New Zealand tree, Alectryon excelsum, of the soapberry family, which bears large panicles of reddish flowers. From the hardness of the wood and its crooked growth it is called New Zealand oak, and from its resemblance in foliage and the toughness of its wood New Zealand ash.

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