manuka

manuka

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori mānuka.

Noun

manuka (countable and uncountable, plural manukas)

1. Leptospermum scoparium, a shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia.
   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"

     There was nothing to be seen but wave after wave of tussock grass - patched with purple orchids and manuka bushes covered with thick spider webs.

2. (uncountable) The wood of this plant.

Synonyms

• Leptospermum scoparium
• tea tree

Derived terms

• manuka honey