2. (noun) edible stem of the cabbage tree (Cordyline spp.).
Ko te kai a aua hapū, he tī (kāuru) e tipu ana i te whenua nei, he aruhe (TPH 29/9/1900:2). / The food of those kinship groups was cabbage tree stems, which grows in this country, and edible fern root.
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