Rimuとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

名詞

rimu (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of limu (“edible algae”)

語源 2

Borrowed from Maori rimu.

名詞

rimu (plural rimus or rimu)

1. A large evergreen conifer native to New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinum.
   • 1928, Leonard Cockayne, The Vegetation of New Zealand, 2011 digitally printed edition, Cambridge University Press, page 164,

     In the Western District, at the present time, there is a great deal of rimu forest (Fig. 38) and the rimu is particularly tall, but not of excessive girth.

   • 2009 January 31, Susan Gough Henly, “Paddling in New Zealand’s nirvana”, in Toronto Star‎:

     Leaving the kayaks at Onetahuti Beach, Maori for “to run along the sand,” we amble along the beach before climbing over a lush headland, dense with kawa kawa trees, rimu pine, silver ferns and flowering tea-trees, to view the sweeping beach in front of the Awaroa estuary.

   • 2012, Stephen J. Simpson, David Raubenheimer, The Nature of Nutrition, Princeton University Press, page 164:

     A reliable indicator of whether in a given year the birds will breed is the abundance of fruits of podocarp trees such as rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), which are the principal food used by females for rearing the young.

派生語

• mountain rimu (Lepidothamnus laxifolius)

Further reading

• Rimu (tree) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dacrydium cupressinum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Dacrydium cupressinum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• Muir, Rumi, muri