rimu

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of limu (“edible algae”).

plural rimus

1. A large evergreen conifer native to New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinum.

   1928, Leonard Cockayne, The Vegetation of New Zealand, 2011 digitally printed edition, Cambridge University Press, page 164, In the Western District, at the present time, there is a great deal of rimu forest (Fig. 38) and the rimu is particularly tall, but not of excessive girth.

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   Leaving the kayaks at Onetahuti Beach, Maori for “to run along the sand,” we amble along the beach before climbing over a lush headland, dense with kawa kawa trees, rimu pine, silver ferns and flowering tea-trees, to view the sweeping beach in front of the Awaroa estuary.

   2009 January 31, Susan Gough Henly, “Paddling in New Zealand’s nirvana”, in Toronto Star

   A reliable indicator of whether in a given year the birds^([kakapo]) will breed is the abundance of fruits of podocarp trees such as rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), which are the principal food used by females for rearing the young.

   2012, Stephen J. Simpson, David Raubenheimer, The Nature of Nutrition, Princeton University Press, page 164