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kowhai
[koh-wahy]
noun
a New Zealand tree, Sophora tetraptera, of the legume family, having clusters of golden-yellow flowers.
kowhai
/ ˈkəʊfaɪ, ˈkəʊwaɪ /
noun
a small leguminous tree, Sophora tetraptera, of New Zealand and Chile, with clusters of yellow flowers
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of kowhai1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of kowhai1
Example Sentences
Jackson came across a "piece of the world" that was also an element of Mansfield's journal – a kowhai flower between two pages in a notebook:
The Bush Babies come out of the kowhai flowers.
The yellow kowhai, seen on the hillsides, shows the russet tint of autumn at the height of spring-time.
There are dreams in the gold of the kowhai, and when ratas are breaking in bloom I can hear the rich murmur of voices in the deeps of the fern-shadowed gloom.
I remembered Anna Jackson with the kowhai flower.
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