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moko

1. (noun) Māori tattooing designs on the face or body done under traditional protocols.

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2. (noun) logo, trademark.

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3. (noun) lizard, skink and gecko - a general term. Because of their spiritual association with the atua Whiro, whose realm was of things evil, tuatara and geckos were feared.

Synonyms: mokopeke, kumukumu, mokomoko


4. (noun) reptile.

moko

1. (noun) grandchild - a term of address used by an older person for a grandchild or a young child. Short for mokopuna.

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moko pirirākau

1. (noun) forest gecko, Hoplodactylus granulatus - favours more shaded environments and can change its colour scheme to merge with its background.

moko rangitahi

1. (noun) temporary moko.

tā moko

1. (verb) (-a) to tattoo, apply traditional tattoo, apply moko - sometimes written as one word, i.e. tāmoko.

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2. (modifier) traditional tattooing.

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3. (noun) traditional tattooing - Māori tattooing designs on the face or body done under traditional protocols.

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moko pāpā

1. (noun) common gecko, Hoplodactylus maculatus - variable in colour and pattern but usually pale brown or putty-grey marked with paler and darker shades.

See also moko tāpiri

moko tāpiri

1. (noun) common gecko, Hoplodactylus maculatus - variable in colour and pattern but usually pale brown or putty-grey marked with paler and darker shades.

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moko kata

1. (noun) unidentified species of lizard.

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moko kākāriki

1. (noun) green tree gecko and jewelled gecko, Naultinus spp. - green geckos of various species found in low, dense shrubbery.

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toi moko

1. (noun) art of tattooing.

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2. (noun) tattooed preserved head - done for two reasons, either to venerate a loved one, or as a trophy of war to ridicule an enemy. In the nineteenth century toi moko were traded with Pākehā in exchange for muskets and gunpowder.

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moko tuauri

1. (noun) dinosaur - large extinct reptiles.

moko pārae

1. (noun) gecko (an unidentified species).

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moko kauwae

1. (noun) female chin/lip tattoo.

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moko pārae

1. unidentified species.

tohunga tā moko

1. (noun) moko expert, tattoo expert.

moko-ngarengare

1. (noun) tyrannosaurus.

Mead, Hirini Moko

1. Ngāti Awa; carver, writer, professor and leader of Ngāti Awa. Educated at Te Teko, St Stephen's School, Te Aute, University of Auckland and the University of Southern Illinois from which he graduated with a PhD. Lecturer at the University of Auckland and then founding Professor of Māori at Victoria University of Wellington. Establish Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi at Whakatāne. Chief negotiator for the Ngāti Awa claims settled in 2005. He was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 2003.

moko-tā

1. a sort of death-watch, said to live in the thatch of houses, never see, but if heard regarded as an aituā' it is also called toke-whenua.

moko-tāwhana

1. caterpillar.

Rua o te Moko, Te

1. (location) mountains between the Waiau River and the fiords.

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