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語源

Borrowed from Māori ponga.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɒŋə/

名詞

ponga (plural pongas)

1. A medium-sized tree fern endemic to New Zealand, of species Alsophila tricolor (syns .Alsophila dealbata, Cyathea dealbata et al.).
   • 1972, James K. Baxter, ‘He Waiata mo Te Kare’, Selected Poems, Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023, p. 265:

     Hilltop behind hilltop, / A mile of green pungas / In the grey afternoon / Bow their heads to the slanting spears of rain.

   • 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 232:

     Ponga logs tended to be used vertically for house walls on the mainland and horizontally (a style known as wakawaka) on the Chatham Islands.

同意語

• silver fern

アナグラム

• go nap