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totara
/ ˈtəʊtərə /
noun
- a tall coniferous forest tree, Podocarpus totara, of New Zealand, having a hard durable wood
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Word History and Origins
Origin of totara1
Māori
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Example Sentences
He went up the Tamar, and at Totara slew five hundred men, and baked and ate three hundred of them.
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The framework was of the durable totara-wood, the lining of reeds, the outside of dried rushes.
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It was a native canoe formed out of the hollow trunk of a totara-tree, and shaped at both ends.
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The "totara" is a tree that reminds one of the English yew, but its narrow leaves are longer and of a yellower green.
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