Associations to the word «Matai»

Wiktionary

MATAI, noun. A Samoan chief.
MATAI, noun. A coniferous tree, Prumnopitys taxifolia, endemic to New Zealand.
MATAI BEER, noun. A liquid tapped from the matai tree and drunk by early bushmen.

Dictionary definition

MATAI, noun. Conifer of Australia and New Zealand.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats