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Definition of Matai
1. Noun. Conifer of Australia and New Zealand.
Group relationships: Genus Prumnopitys, Prumnopitys
Generic synonyms: Conifer, Coniferous Tree
Definition of Matai
1. Noun. A Samoan chief. ¹
2. Noun. A coniferous tree, ''Prumnopitys taxifolia'', endemic to New Zealand. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matai
Literary usage of Matai
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)
"matai, 1. (k) 1. an opening, eye ; source of water ; front. 2. cover for an
opening, lid. Very common in Ocean tongues, often "face. ..."
2. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1911)
"He who is not a matai has only a (Christian ?) name, and is indicated as ...
(J) A matai sometimes permits a relation to use the same matai name, ..."
3. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"matai (matai), to try to obtain by indirectly asking ; to seek to obtain by artifice.
.... Samoan—cf. matai'a, one keen to see fish ; to look out for fish, ..."
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