(n) an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery
(n) coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves, Syn. Tetragonia tetragonioides, Tetragonia expansa
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]
New Zealand flax. (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like.(b)The fiber itself. -- New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptospermum scoparium) of New Zealand and Australia, the leaves of which are used as a substitute for tea. [ 1913 Webster ]
[nyu-ji-randohoshizame] (n) spotted estuary smooth-hound (Mustelus lenticulatus, species of houndshark found around southern Australia and New Zealand)