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单词 pakihi
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pakihin.

Brit. /ˈpɑːkᵻhi/, U.S. /ˈpɑkəˌhi/, New Zealand English /ˈpʌːkihi/, /ˈpʌːkəhi/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, pakihis.
Forms: 1800s paki, 1800s– pakihi, 1900s– pakahi, 1900s– parke, 1900s– parkee, 1900s– parkihi.
Origin: A borrowing from Maori. Etymon: Maori pākihi.
Etymology: < Maori pākihi open grass country, barren land.
New Zealand.
In New Zealand, esp. in western parts of the South Island: a tract or area of open land, often waterlogged; land of this kind.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]
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fenc888
sladec893
moorOE
mossOE
marshlandlOE
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lay-mirea1225
moor-fenc1275
flosha1300
strother?a1300
marish1327
carrc1330
waterlanda1382
gaseync1400
quaba1425
paludec1425
mersec1440
sumpa1450
palus?1473
wash1483
morass1489
oozea1500
bog?a1513
danka1522
fell1538
soga1552
Camarine1576
gog1583
swale1584
sink1594
haga1600
mere1609
flata1616
swamp1624
pocosin1634
frogland1651
slash1652
poldera1669
savannah1671
pond-land1686
red bog1686
swang1691
slack1719
flowa1740
wetland1743
purgatory1760
curragh1780
squall1784
marais1793
vlei1793
muskeg1806
bog-pit1820
prairie1820
fenhood1834
pakihi1851
terai1852
sponge1856
takyr1864
boglet1869
sinkhole1885
grimpen1902
sphagnum bog1911
blanket bog1939
string bog1959
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > waterlogged soil
moss1596
boga1687
liver1803
pakihi1851
gley1927
pseudogley1953
1851 E. Shortland Southern Districts N.Z. x. 195 These plains [near Moeraki] are called ‘pakihi’.
1861 J. von Haast Rep. Topogr. & Geol. Explor. Nelson Province iv. 131 I shall now enumerate the different pakis, or open tracts of land.
1871 C. L. Money Knocking about in N.Z. v. 63 We suddenly came out of the bush on to an open pakihi some miles in length.
1947 P. Newton Wayleggo (1949) x. 110 Little pakihis ran up into the bush every here and there.
1972 P. Newton Sheep Thief ix. 72 He set off up the creek in search of the horses. He found them grazing in a little pakihi.
2003 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 24 Mar. Flipping can transform a paddock from waterlogged pakihi to fine, free-draining soil.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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