1. (noun) someone related through two different lines, standing in a double relationship.
E kī ana taku karangarua, a Kemureti, e toru tekau mā waru ngā tāngata i runga, he tāne anake (HP 1991:8). / My relation, Kemureti, says that thirty-eight people were on it, only men.
See also karanga rua
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