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Definition of Toetoe
1. Noun. Tall grass of New Zealand grown for plumelike flower heads.
Generic synonyms: Grass
2. Noun. Used by Maoris for thatching.
Definition of Toetoe
1. New Zealand grass [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toetoe
Literary usage of Toetoe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"toetoe, several kinds of long grass or rushes, used for thatching purposes : He
mea tango e aua tohunga i te toetoe ranei, i te tarutaru ranei — AHM, i. 5. ..."
2. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1905)
"Among the Tuhoe people, in whose district the toetoe does not flourish, some
prepared fibre of the ti palm ..."
3. The Maori Race by Edward Tregear (1904)
"... bullrush leaves alternated with layers of cutting-grass (toetoe: Arundo
conspicua ; and toetoe-upoko-tangata: Cyperus ustulata) formed the bulk of the ..."
4. Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders: With Illustrations of by Edward Shortland (1854)
"... he assures the anxious spectators that he has seen the path, and that the
spirit came from below upwards through a flax bush, or the stem of toetoe, ..."
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