Noun

rimu (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#RIMUCategory:English nouns#RIMUCategory:English uncountable nouns#RIMUCategory:English uncountable nouns#RIMUCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIMUCategory:Pages with entries#RIMUCategory:Pages with 2 entries#RIMU

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

Noun

rimu (plural rimus or rimu)Category:English lemmas#RIMUCategory:English nouns#RIMUCategory:English countable nouns#RIMUCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#RIMUCategory:English indeclinable nouns#RIMUCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIMUCategory:Pages with entries#RIMUCategory:Pages with 2 entries#RIMU

1. A large evergreen conifer native to New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinumCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Dacrydium%20cupressinum.
   • 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.

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   • 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^[kakapo] will breed is the abundance of fruits of podocarp trees such as rimu (Dacrydium cupressinumCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Dacrydium%20cupressinum), which are the principal food used by females for rearing the young.

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Further reading

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

Descendants

• → English: rimu