manuka
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Maori
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manuka (countable and uncountable; plural manukas)
- A shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"
- There was nothing to be seen but wave after wave of tussock grass - patched with purple orchids and manuka bushes covered with thick spider webs.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"
- (uncountable) The wood of this plant.
