One scholarly urge to identify the biblical unicorn with the Assyrian aurochs springs from a similarity between the Assyrian word rimu and the Hebrew word re’em. From Wordnik.com. [Creationists on the Square in Madison, Wisconsin - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Catlins Forest Park contains rimu-dominant podocarp forest, as well as New Zealand's southernmost stand of silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii). From Wordnik.com. [Southland temperate forests] Reference
The dominant lowland trees are rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa), and southern rata or ironwood (Metrosideros umbellata). From Wordnik.com. [Rakiura Island temperate forests] Reference
The common podocarps are: rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), thin-barked totara (Podocarpus hallii), miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea), and kohekoe (Dysoxylum spectabile). From Wordnik.com. [Northland temperate kauri forests] Reference
The uniform canopy is dominated by broadleaf species, mainly kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa) and tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), with some emergent podocarps (e.g., rimu and matai). From Wordnik.com. [Northland temperate forests] Reference
In the lowland areas podocarps and hardwoods were predominant with kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) growing in swampy areas and rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) on drier sites. From Wordnik.com. [Southland temperate forests] Reference
Tall podocarp trees (rimu, miro, Hall's totara) then succeed and the end point of this sequence can be found on the higher glacial outwash surfaces (around 25,000 years old); here the extremely leached, infertile soils can only support a stunted heath and bog vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand] Reference
A fine young rimu was felled one morning near the top of our drive. From Wordnik.com. [whoar.co.nz] Reference
Starts at a large rimu tree and then a walk through the undergrowth and vines back to the walking track. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Westpac targets NZ foresters in carbon trade] Reference
The picturesque effect of the birches is remarkable, flanked by the massive outlines and drooping tassels of the rimu. From Wordnik.com. [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference
The industry's problems stretch back to 2000, when the Labour government ceased logging native rimu, on which Coast sawmills largely relied. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
These were once dominated by the major podocarp species: rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), miro (Podocrpus ferrugineus), matai (Podocarpus spicatus), totara (Podocarpus totara), and kahikatea (Dacryacrpus dacrydioides). From Wordnik.com. [Northland temperate forests] Reference
Kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa) and rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) grow at lower altitudes with rimu giving way to Hall's totara (Podocarpus hallii) and kaikawaka (Libocedrus bidwillii) below a shrub layer dominated by leatherwood (Olearia colensoi). From Wordnik.com. [Northland temperate forests] Reference
A group of pines planted around the graveyard in the 1870s stand like sentries, but elsewhere the Department of Conservation is posioning and removing exotic vegetation, so that native podocarps like rimu and matai have more room to spread their branches. From Wordnik.com. [Reading the Maps] Reference
It is singular that while this district is the only place in New Zealand where the kauri-trees are found, nearly every other species of tree native to the country is also found here, among them the rimu, the matai, the white pine, the tooth-leaved beech, and the totara, all in close proximity to the kauri. From Wordnik.com. [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference
The biblical unicorn could have been an aurochs a kind of wild ox known to the Assyrians as rimu.7 The aurochs’s horns were very symmetrical and often appeared as one in profile, as can be seen on Ashurnasirpal II’s palace relief and Esarhaddon’s stone prism.8 Fighting rimu was a popular sport for Assyrian kings. From Wordnik.com. [Creationists on the Square in Madison, Wisconsin - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
\ "Guide to New Zealand trees\" and your GPS device: a) Go to xx / xx and find a rimu tree. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
We would rather give them 10 new rimu for every one we took out and they agreed to that, ultimately, ". From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
The faux-Elvish structures (supposedly built by the elves in "The Lord of the Rings '') once stood amid the rata, rimu, and beech trees but have long since been dismantled. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference
rimu-cujen, the 1st month of rimu, --------------- April. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
Inarimu-cujen, the 2d month of rimu, ----------------- May. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
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