释义 |
kiekie /ˈkiːkiː /nounA New Zealand climbing plant with edible bracts, and leaves which are used for basket-making and weaving.- Freycinetia banksii, family Pandanaceae.
Kiekie is found in North Island and also on the west coast of South Island down to Milford Sound, from coastal to montane forests and scrub....- Kiekie has climbing stems and long narrow flax-like leaves.
- I have long known that rats, which I suppose are Norway rats, were in the habit of climbing up the many-stemmed and thickly-clustering heads of the kiekie, a many-headed plant which clings so pertinaciously to many of our forest-trees, and often ascends to a considerable height.
OriginMid 19th century: from Maori. |