Also kaikaterre, kakaterra. [Maori.] A New Zealand tree, Podocarpus dacrydioides, N.O. Coniferæ (or Taxaceæ); called by the colonists White Pine. Also attrib.
1823. Cruise, Ten Months N. Zeal., 145 (Morris s.v. Kauri). The timber purveyor of the Coromandel having given cowry a decided preference to kaikaterre.
1875. Laslett, Timber & Timber Trees, 304 (Morris). The kahikatea or kakaterra tree.
1876. W. Blair, in Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., IX. X. 160 (ibid.). This timber is known in all the provinces, except Otago, by the native name of ‘Kahikatea.’
