ivin.
/ˈiːviː/ The Tahitian chestnut, Inocarpus fagiferus ( I. edulis), a leguminous evergreen tree bearing spikes of white or yellow flowers and dark red, edible fruit.
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1862 B. Seemann Viti xvi. 318 The Ivi, or Tahitian chestnut,..is one of the common trees [in Fiji].
1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1308/1 Ivi (Feejee). Inocarpus edulis.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 156/2 The ivi or Tahitian chestnut (Inocarpus edulis).
1881 C. F. Cumming At Home in Fiji I. 275 A group of eevie trees appears like one gigantic mass of lovely trailing foliage.
1888 W. Hillebrand Flora Hawaiian Islands 109 Here [i.e. among the Caesalpinieae] also must be given a place to the anomalous Inocarpus edulis, Forst., or Tahitian Chestnut, the Ivi or Mapé.
1894 B. Thomson S. Sea Yarns 7 He repaired to the mainland to consult a rival oracle named Na-ivi (the ivi-tree).
1935 Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 130 119 The native names [of Inocarpus edulis] are ihi or mape in Nukuhiva and Hivaoa of the Marquesas.
1964 C. S. Belshaw (title) Under the ivi tree. Society and economic growth in rural Fiji.
1970 W. R. Sykes Contrib. Flora Niue 156 No ifi trees were seen growing in places other than those connected with man's activities.
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