Etymology

papauma

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Today it means: Synonym of kapuka (“New Zealand tree”). Full definition →

Māori pāpāuma
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The story

  1. Māori · borrowed frompāpāuma
  2. English todaypapauma

From Māori pāpāuma.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.