Lexicographical Neighbors of Nikau
Literary usage of Nikau
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1918)
"... -nikau, thence to the Tararua range. After this grant was made, ... -nikau by
Europeans) and to those at Te ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"EJ Wakefield, ' Adventures in New Zealand,' cip 270: [The house was] "covered
with a thick coating of the leaves of the nikau (a kind of palm) and tufts of ..."
3. The Polynesian Wanderings: Tracks of the Migration Deduced from an by William Churchill (1911)
"Mangareva: niu, the coconut palm when young, ripening into nikau. ... In composition
with kau (301) tree we should then see nikau, the nt'-tree, ..."
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