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tutu noun1. ['tu:tu:] NZ. M19.
[Maori.]
An indigenous shrub, Coriaria arborea (family Coriariaceae), having black berries with poisonous seeds, which reputedly were freq. fatal to newly landed cattle but could be eaten safely by animals that had become gradually accustomed to their use.
eat one's tutu, eat tutu slang (obsolete exc. Hist.) become acclimatized to colonial life in New Zealand.