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Noun: totara
  1. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves
    "Totara wood was traditionally used by Maori for carving"; "Podocarpus totara wood was traditionally used by Maori for carving";
    - Podocarpus totara

Derived forms: totaras

Type of: conifer, coniferous tree

Part of: genus Podocarpus, Podocarpus

Encyclopedia: Totara