toa

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small painted artifact made by the Diyari people of Australia, believed to have been used as place markers or signposts.
    — These thirty-four toa constructions, made from urban debris and ceremoniously installed in a circular (or sometimes oval) bed of sand, bring together the multiple themes centred on reclamation that preoccupied his life.
  2. A brave warrior. New-Zealand
    — The toa or brave who distinguished himself was thought very highly of.
  3. A Polynesian tree of the genus Casuarina, or its wood. countable,uncountable
    — It happens that nature has assembled in this spot, not only the wildest profusion of the vegetable kingdom, over which the lofty toa tree stands pre-eminent, but also objects of another description, overhanging rocks, hollow-sounding caverns, and steep precipices, calculated to give an aspect as bold and sublime as the imagination can well conceive, and constituting a species of scenery, which, in proportion as it is more rare, is more admired by the natives.

词形变化

toas plural toas plural toas plural

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Dieri toa (“sign, mark, stick, messenger”), thoa, thuwa.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Māori toabor.
English toa
Borrowed from Māori toa.
词源 3
Borrowed from Māori toa. Doublet of koa.
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