karaka

plural karakas

1. New ZealandAn evergreen tree, Corynocarpus laevigatus, bearing fruits with a kernel that can be eaten after extensive roasting and washing.

   For years the karaka tree had scraped and banged in the wind against the bit of our iron fence that still stood […].

   1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 102

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   It may have been around this time that ‘wild’ plants such as karaka, cabbage tree and bracken fern began to be semi-cultivated.

   2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 59

plural karakas

1. VedicastrologyA significator.