Wiktionary
n. 1 A shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia. 2 (context uncountable English) The wood of this plant.
Wikipedia
Manuka may refer to:
- The flowering plant Leptospermum scoparium (Mānuka in Māori)
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Manuka, Australian Capital Territory, an area in Canberra, named after the plant
- Manuka Oval, a stadium in the above territory
- Manuka Primary School in Witheford Heights, North Shore, New Zealand
- Manuka Gorge, a canyon close to Waitahuna in New Zealand
- Mānuka honey, a monofloral honey
- Mānuka (waka), from Māori mythology
- Manuka State Wayside Park and forest reserve, a park on the Island of Hawaii
- Manuka Football Club, a defunct Australian Rules Football club
- Gentian Manuka (born 1991), Albanian footballer
In Māori tradition, Mānuka was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand.
Usage examples of "manuka".
After allowing the horse to drink, Cullen left him amiably munching the spindly clumps of grass that grew beneath the feathery manuka and kanuka trees, and climbed down the bank before shedding his boots, dusty denims and finally his battered leather Akubra hat.
Together, they slipped into the manuka, karaka and totara trees that bordered the rear of the property.
Five of them were hot springs hidden from the windows by fences of manuka scrub.
Questing, who did not care for sitting on the ground, took a camp-stool to the far end of the lake, placed it behind some manuka scrub near the diving board, and, fortified by a cigar, sat there until he spied Barbara leaving the house.
A tall fence of manuka poles showed dramatically against the night sky, resembling in the half-light the palisade that had stood there in the days when the village was a fort.
Shadows were graved like caverns in the flanks of the hill, but while the higher surfaces, as it drawn in wood by an engraver, were strongly marked in passages of silver and black, the lower planes were wreathed in vapour through which rose manuka bushes, stiffly pallid.
One of them carried a sack which he held away from him, the others, rakes and long manuka poles.
Dikon reached him he turned and led the way onwards to the gap in the manuka hedge.
Beyond the manuka bushes where we spoke, unknown to me, this girl lay dreaming.
They disappeared behind the manuka hedge, taking the roundabout path to the cabins.
A few Aussie bugs have been sent overseas to control pests like manuka weed and the sugarcane planthopper.
Berating herself, she scrambled back into the stifling dusty confines of the manuka scrub.
As she wound down the hillside, she left banks of green bush behind her as the manuka and native ferns gave way to pasture and the occasional house.
Bob Johnson, chopping through a stand of brushwood, came upon the wire, an insulated line, newly laid, running underneath the manuka and well hidden.