kiokio
1. (noun) kiokio, palm-leaf fern, Blechnum novae-zelandiae - a robust native, creeping ground fern with long drooping fronds commonly found on damp road banks and alongside forest streams. Leaflets strap-like and very finely toothed. New growth tinged pink or red.
Arā anō he aruhe i kainga e te Māori, tae atu ki ngā pihinga o te kōwaowao, te rereti, te mouku, te huruhuru whenua, te koru o te kiokio me te pikopiko (Te Ara 2011). / Māori ate other ground ferns, including the young fronds of hound’s tongue fern, rereti, hen and chickens fern and shining spleenwort. They ate the curled shoots of kiokio and common shield fern.
horokio
1. (noun) kiokio, palm-leaf fern, Blechnum novae-zelandiae - a robust native, creeping ground fern with long drooping fronds commonly found on damp road banks and alongside forest streams. Leaflets strap-like and very finely toothed. New growth tinged pink or red.
Nō te taenga o Tainui ki Kāwhia, ka ngakia ngā purapura a ngā wāhine i mau mai nei i Hawaiki, wehe kē ngā māra a tētehi, wehe kē ā tētehi. Ko te whenua i whakatōkia ai ko Te Papa-o-Kārewa, wāhi o Kāwhia. Te tupunga ake o ngā māra nei puta mai te kūmara a Mārama he pōhue, puta ana te hue he māwhai, puta ana te aute he whau, puta ana te para he horokio, ka hē te tupu o ngā purapura a Mārama, te take i hara ia ki tana taurereka (TWMNT 12/12/1872:156). / When the Tainui canoe reached Kāwhia, the women, who had brought seeds from Hawaiki, planted them, each woman having a separate garden. The land that was planted was Te Papa-o-Kārewa, a place at Kāwhia. When these gardens grew Mārama's kūmara emerged as convolvulus, the gourd plants appeared as māwhai, the paper mulberry as corkwood and the king fern as kiokio. The reason that Mārama's seeds grew incorrectly was because she misbehaved with her slave.
See also kiokio
piupiu
1. (verb) (-a) to wave about, move to and fro, oscillate, swing, skip (with a rope), wield, brandish.
Tino mīharo ana ngā tamariki o te marae ki te hōiho o te Kōmihana, o John Cullen e kanikani haere mai ana, me te Kōmihana e piupiu mai ana i tana pītara (TTR 2000:246). / The children of the marae admired Commissioner John Cullen’s horse as it danced towards them, with the commissioner waving his pistol.
Synonyms: ngapu, ngāruerue, pioi, takaoreore, kōpiupiu, ngarue, kaurori, koiri
2. (noun) skipping, skipping rope.
3. (noun) waist-to-knees garment made of flax - has a wide waistband and is used in modern times for kapa haka performances.
Nā Te Arawa te poi tuatahi, e 50 te matua, he mā te kākahu, he piupiu te paki (TP 1/8/1901:6). / Te Arawa performed the first poi song and there were 50 in their group, with white garments and piupiu as their skirts.
5. (noun) kiokio, palm-leaf fern, Blechnum novae-zelandiae - a robust native, creeping ground fern with long drooping fronds commonly found on damp road banks and alongside forest streams. Leaflets strap-like and very finely toothed. New growth tinged pink or red.
6. (noun) gully fern, Pneumatopteris pennigera - tufted native ground fern, sometimes forming a short thin trunk. Its brown-stalked, pale, dark-veined fronds have 15-30 pairs of long, round-notched leaflets. Common in damp forest gullies.
See also pākauroharoha
Synonyms: pākau, pākauroharoha
