"The tulip-wood, with its variegated flowers and delightful perfume, grows in abundance."
<hw>Tumata-kuru</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name for plant better known as <i>Wild Irishman</i> (q.v.), <i>Discaria toumatou</i>, Raoul. "A thorny plant, very difficult to handle." (Vincent Pyke.) <i>Tumatagowry</i>, or <i>Matagory</i> (q.v.), is the Southern corruption of contractors, labourers, and others.
1889. Vincent Pyke, `Wild Will Enderby,' p. 16:
"Upon the arid flats, patches of Tumatu-kuru, and of a purple-flowering broom, struggle to maintain a scraggy existence."
1889. T. Kirk, `Forest Flora of New Zealand,' p. 283:
"The tumatakuru merits a place in this work rather on account of its value in the past than of its present usefulness. In the early days of settlement in the South Island this afforded the only available timber in many mountain-valleys, and was frequently converted by hand sawyers for building purposes; being of great durability, it was found very serviceable, notwithstanding its small dimensions: the formation of roads has deprived it of value by facilitating the conveyance of ordinary building timber."
<hw>Tuna</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Eel</i>.
<hw>Tupakihi</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Tutu</i> (q.v.).
<hw>Tupara</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori corruption of "two-barrel." Compare the aboriginal word <i>Whilpra</i> (q.v.).
1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' vol. ii. p. 109: