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Definition of Makomako
1. Noun. Graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine.
Group relationships: Aristotelia, Genus Aristotelia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Definition of Makomako
1. Noun. A tree endemic to New Zealand, taxonomic name ''Aristotelia serrata'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Makomako
Literary usage of Makomako
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Language of Mota, Sugarloaf Island, Banks' Islands, with by Robert Henry Codrington, John Palmer (1896)
"... when the friends of the candidate lay leaves on the money in a basket ; we
sese makomako, when they pull apart the garland and distribute the money. ..."
2. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1897)
"It is an old Dravidian tree-name. Mallika in Hindustani is the Arabian jessamine.
Solatium sp.—Marquesan makomako (on ..."
3. New Zealand Official Yearbook by New Zealand Dept. of Statistics (1907)
"... yellow-pine, tawa, kawakawa, (tall pepper-tree), rewarewa (New Zealand
honeysuckle), horopito (pepper-tree), makomako (wineberry), manuka (tea-tree), ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Until recent years the forest birds did much to atone for this deficiency, for
among them the tui and makomako rank high » songsters, ..."
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