Associations to the word «Matai»

Wiktionary

MATAI, noun. A Samoan chief.
MATAI, noun. A coniferous tree, Prumnopitys taxifolia, endemic to New Zealand.
MATAI BEER, noun. A liquid tapped from the matai tree and drunk by early bushmen.

Dictionary definition

MATAI, noun. Conifer of Australia and New Zealand.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King