Meaning: The ngaio tree
The story
Ngaio is a Māori name taken from a New Zealand tree, also called the mousehole tree. Crime writer Ngaio Marsh helped make this distinctive name familiar beyond New Zealand.
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Rare in US records; use elsewhere may differ.
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Ngaio comes from Māori.
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