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kowhai
[ koh-wahy ]
noun
- a New Zealand tree, Sophora tetraptera, of the legume family, having clusters of golden-yellow flowers.
kowhai
/ ˈkəʊfaɪ; ˈkəʊwaɪ /
noun
- a small leguminous tree, Sophora tetraptera, of New Zealand and Chile, with clusters of yellow flowers
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of kowhai1
First recorded in 1825–35, kowhai is from the Maori word ō()
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of kowhai1
C19: from Māori
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Jackson came across a "piece of the world" that was also an element of Mansfield's journal – a kowhai flower between two pages in a notebook:
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The Bush Babies come out of the kowhai flowers.
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The yellow kowhai, seen on the hillsides, shows the russet tint of autumn at the height of spring-time.
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There are dreams in the gold of the kowhai, and when ratas are breaking in bloom I can hear the rich murmur of voices in the deeps of the fern-shadowed gloom.
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I remembered Anna Jackson with the kowhai flower.
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