Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
imoupine .
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- noun A large
evergreen conifer native toNew Zealand , Dacrydium cupressinum
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tall New Zealand timber tree
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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I had heard there were some issues with the rimu wood splitting due to the temperature extremes in the Canadian climate.
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I had heard there were some issues with the rimu wood splitting due to the temperature extremes in the Canadian climate.
May 2009 2009
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The common podocarps are: rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), thin-barked totara (Podocarpus hallii), miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea), and kohekoe (Dysoxylum spectabile).
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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).
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The dominant lowland trees are rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa), and southern rata or ironwood (Metrosideros umbellata).
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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
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Catlins Forest Park contains rimu-dominant podocarp forest, as well as New Zealand's southernmost stand of silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii).
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In the lowland areas podocarps and hardwoods were predominant with kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) growing in swampy areas and rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) on drier sites.
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