单词 | toi-toi |
释义 | toi-toin. The native name for various tall reed-like grasses of the genus Arundo, esp. A. conspicua, natives of New Zealand. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > reed or the reed plant reedeOE spirea1425 pole-reed1578 pool reed1587 reed-grass1597 marsh-reed1797 flag-reed1833 Phragmites1840 toi-toi1843 fox's foot1853 spire reed1863 trumpet reed1866 bango1899 kamish1902 Norfolk reed1952 1843 in A. Domett Collect. Ord. (1850) Every building constructed wholly or in part of raupo, nikau, toi~toi, wiwi kakaho, straw or thatch of any description. 1867 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) xv. 110 Thatching it with Tohi, or swamp-grass. 1892 19th Cent. Sept. 409 The Toe-toe, which closely resembles pampas grass. 1907 ‘K. Mansfield’ Jrnl. Nov.–Dec. (1954) 23 A clump of toi-toi waving in the wind, and looking for all the world like a family of little girls drying their hair. 1957 J. Frame Owls do Cry 13 The place was like a shell with gold tickle of toi-toi around its edges. 1981 M. Gee Meg xxi. 244 Hedges of toi-toi and fields of fat spring grass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1843 |
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