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Definition of Marattia salicina
1. Noun. Large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marattia Salicina
Literary usage of Marattia salicina
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.) (1905)
"... is found if we suppose the para here to refer to the fern (marattia salicina)
of that name, and the bulbous root of which was considered a delicacy. ..."
2. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1905)
"... is found if we suppose the para here to refer to the fern (marattia salicina)
of that name, and the bulbous root of which was considered a delicacy. ..."
3. The Maori Race by Edward Tregear (1904)
"... except two, and one of these became the origin of the Para-tawhiti fern (Marattia
salicina). A somewhat similar story is told of a man named Tua, ..."
4. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"as a perfume in the Sandwich Islands, and its rhizome serves for food, as that
of the marattia salicina does in New Zealand. ..."
5. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"... tou, thy ; пои, belonging to you, &c. MODA (ni-'ii'i), the back of the neck.
MOUKU, the name of a large and handsome fern (Bot. marattia salicina). ..."
6. Mittheilungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Botanik by August Schenk, Christian Luerssen (1874)
"marattia salicina Sin. in Rees Cycl. vol. 88. Grev. et Hook, in Hook. Bot. Mise.
III. 226. Presl, Suppl. Tent. ..."
7. A dictionary of the New-Zealand language, and a concise grammar by William Williams (1871)
"5. marattia salicina ; a fern. 6. bravery; spirit. He tangata whai para. para, 1.
turned to dust; rotten. He riri ano ta te tawa uho, he riri ano ta te tawa ..."
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