Also toi-toi, tohi, toi. [Maori.] The native name for various tall reed-like grasses of the genus Arundo, esp. A. conspicua, natives of New Zealand.
1843. in A. Domett, Collect. Ord. (1850) (Morris). Every building constructed wholly or in part of raupo, nikau, toi-toi, wiwi kakaho, straw or thatch of any description.
1867. Lady Barker, Station Life N. Zealand, xv. (1870), 110. Thatching it with Tohi, or swamp-grass.
1892. 19th Cent., Sept., 409. The Toe-toe, which closely resembles pampas grass.
