Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A New Zealand tree, Vitex littoralis, 50 or 60 feet high, with robust spreading branches.
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Examples
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The chief had grown old and sick, and he sat every day for two years on a fallen puriri near the white man's pah, but he never entered it.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
knitandpurl commented on the word puriri
"How's Tisco?"
"Same as ever. His magnum opus just gets longer and longer, and the title now changes daily."
"What was it, last you heard?"
"The Proud Puriri of Percipience ... A Disturbingly Dialectical Distillation of This Nation's Solipsistic Soul, Wrought from the Fabric of Our Unconscious and the Wiry Strands of a No. 9 Sable Brush..."
Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks, p 74
February 3, 2017