rimu
/ˈɹiːmuː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large evergreen conifer native to New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinum.
Example Sentences
- "1928, Leonard Cockayne, The Vegetation of New Zealand, 2011 digitally printed edition, Cambridge University Press, page 164, In the Western District, at the present time, there is a great deal of rimu forest (Fig. 38) and the rimu is particularly tall, but not of excessive girth."
- "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."
- "A reliable indicator of whether in a given year the birds^([kakapo]) will breed is the abundance of fruits of podocarp trees such as rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), which are the principal food used by females for rearing the young."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: rimu