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Definition of Kawaka
1. Noun. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
Generic synonyms: Cedar, Cedar Tree
Group relationships: Genus Libocedrus, Libocedrus
Definition of Kawaka
1. n. a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.
Definition of Kawaka
1. Noun. (NZ) A New Zealand tree, ''Libocedrus plumosa''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Kawaka
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Kawaka
Literary usage of Kawaka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"This stream, the kawaka, comes from the north, and runs into the ... The descent
to the kawaka was one of the steepest I have ever ..."
2. A Description of the Genus Pinus: With Directions Relative to the by Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1832)
"THE kawaka AND MIRO Were collected neither in fruit or flower. ... The kawaka
attains the height of from sixty to seventy feet, and from eight to ten feet ..."
3. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1878)
"... there flourishes the Laurel-like kawaka, with its dork green waxy leaves and
bright yellow berries ; and there is the sweetly fragrant Manukau and the ..."
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