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▪ I. ‖ ti|tiː|
Also ti-ti.
[Native Polynesian: cf. ki.]
a. Native name of several trees of the genus Cordyline (formerly included in Dracæna), N.O. Liliaceæ, with edible roots; in Polynesia, C. terminalis; in New Zealand, C. australis and C. indivisa; known also as cabbage-palm, cabbage-tree, club palm, and palm-lily (palm n.1 1 c, 7).
1832G. Bennett in London Med. Gaz. 22 Sept. 795/2 Dracæna indivisa. Ti of the natives. This species of Dracæna..attains an elevation of ten or twelve feet,..The leaves form an excellent food as sea stock for cattle, &c. 1839Darwin Voy. Nat. xviii. (1873) 410 A liliaceous plant called Ti. 1845E. J. Wakefield Adv. N. Zealand I. iii. 58 In these natural shrubberies..a kind of cabbage-tree, called ti by the natives, flourishes. 1896Contemp. Rev. Aug. 240 The ti and the apé are taken out well cooked. The apé prevents the ti from getting too dry in the oven.
b. attrib., as ti-leaf, ti-palm, ti-plant, ti-root, etc.; ti-oven, an oven for cooking ti-roots. Cf. ti-tree, tea-tree 2.
1840Lundie Mission. Life Samoa xiv. (1846) 89 Many women having no dress but the ti leaves round the waist. 1851V. Lush Jrnl. 25 Sept. (1971) 86 Planted 14 Ti-palms in various parts of my grounds. 1866M. A. Barker Station Life N. Zealand viii. (1870) 52 Ti-ti palms are dotted here and there. 1882T. H. Potts Out in Open 297 (Morris) The tough, fibrous leaves of the ti-palm. 1896Contemp. Rev. Aug. 240 The ti-ovens are frequently thirty feet in diameter.
▪ II. ti
see te1, ti. |