"The ti-tree on either side of the road was in bloom, its soft, fluffy, creamy bushes gathering in great luxuriance on the tops of the taller trees, almost hiding the green."
1893. `The Argus,' April 29, p. 4, col. 4:
"There was many a shorthorned Hereford hidden in the innermost recesses of that tick and sand-fly infested ti-tree that knew not the cunning of a stockman's hand."
1894. `Melbourne Museum Catalogue—Economic Woods':
"No. 133, Coast tea-tree, <i>Leptospermum laevigatum</i>,
F. v. M. No. 142, Swamp tea-tree, <i>Melaleuca ericifolia</i>,
Smith."
<hw>Teetee</hw>. Same as <i>Ti-Ti</i> (q.v.).
<hw>Telopea</hw>, <i>n</i>. scientific name of the genus containing the flower called the <i>Waratah</i> (q.v.), from the Greek <i>taelowpos</i>, `seen from afar,' in allusion (as the author of the name, Robert Brown, himself says) to the conspicuous crimson flowers. The name has been corrupted popularly into <i>Tulip</i>, and the flower is often called the <i>Native Tulip</i>.
1835. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 110:
"The beautiful crimson flowering shrub, with dark green rhododendron-like leaves, which grows in the upper region of Mount Wellington. . . . The generic name is derived from <i>telopos</i>, seen at a distance. It has been corrupted into tulip tree, to which it bears not the least resemblance."
<hw>Tena koe</hw>, a Maori salutation used in North Island of New Zealand. Lit. "That is you," and meaning "How do you do?"