English

A full-grown rimu

Noun

rimu ‎(plural rimus or rimu)

1. A large evergreen conifer native to New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinum.
   • 2009, January 31, “Susan Gough Henly”, in Paddling in New Zealand’s nirvana:

     Leaving the kayaks at Onetahuti Beach, Maori for “to run along the sand,” we amble along the beach before climbing over a lush headland, dense with kawa kawa trees, rimu pine, silver ferns and flowering tea-trees, to view the sweeping beach in front of the Awaroa estuary.

Derived terms

• mountain rimu

See also

• Rimu (tree) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dacrydium cupressum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Muir
• muri

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Oceanic *limut, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limut.

Noun

rimu

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta)
2. a large tree native to New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinum; see English rimu.