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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A New Zealand tree, Vitex littoralis, 50 or 60 feet high, with robust spreading branches.

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  • "How's Tisco?"

    "Same as ever. His magnum opus just gets longer and longer, and the title now changes daily."

    "What was it, last you heard?"

    "The Proud Puriri of Percipience ... A Disturbingly Dialectical Distillation of This Nation's Solipsistic Soul, Wrought from the Fabric of Our Unconscious and the Wiry Strands of a No. 9 Sable Brush..."

    Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks, p 74

    February 3, 2017