matagouri

English

Etymology

From Maori tūmatakuru, with loss of first syllable. Compare tumatakuru.

Noun

matagouri (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand) A thorny shrub, Discaria toumatou. [from 19th c.]
    • 1984, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 181:
      Willowglen was surrounded on three sides by paddocks of matagouri, of swamp, and on one side there was the railway line leading south out of Oamaru.

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