[Maori.] A New Zealand shrub yielding shining black juicy berries, containing poisonous seeds; = TOOT sb.5 Also attrib.
1857. [see TOOT sb.5].
1861. C. C. Bowen, Poems, 57. And flax and fern and tutu grew In wild luxuriance round.
1867. [see TUPAKIHI].
1884. A. Cox, Recoll., 258. Footpaths fringed with tutu bushes.
1889. G. P. Williams & W. P. Reeves, Colonial Couplets, 20 (Morris). The troublesome process … Which old settlers are wont to call ‘eating your tutu.’
