2. (noun) curve, crescent shaped.
Ko te marama taha niko, he tohu mō te ao hōu (Te Ara 2016). / The crescent moon is a portent of a new world (Te Ara 2016).
2. (noun) wild cabbage, Brassica oleracea - an introduced plant.
pūkoro
1. (noun) cloak with a narrow tāniko border on the sides only.
Ngā taonga i haere atu ai, he taupō, he paepaeroa, he korowai, he pekerangi muka, he pekerangi wūru, he pūkoro whatu Māori, he mere pounamu (KO 15/3/1884:3). / The treasures that were taken were: a rough black and yellow cloak, a cloak with tāniko borders along three sides, a cloak with tags, a cloak decorated with tufts of red feathers spaced over it one made of flax fibre and the other with wool, a cloak with a narrow tāniko border on the sides only and a greenstone mere.
2. cloak with a broad tāniko ornamental border at the bottom and narrow borders at the sides.
See also paepaeroa
kaitaka
1. (noun) a highly prized cloak made of flax fibre with a tāniko ornamental border.
Nō te taenga mai ka takoto ngā taonga, te parawai, te kaitaka, te kākahu-kura, he nui te taonga, he nui hoki te kaitaka harakeke nei, me ngā patu e rua, kotahi te patu he mere, he akerautangi tētahi, he ōnewa tētahi, ko Oneone te ingoa; ko te Haemata te mere akerautangi rā (JPS 1927:254). / On arrival the gifts were laid out, the fine cloaks of flax fiber and red-feather cloaks, many articles, including many mats and two weapons, one being a wooden mere of akerautangi wood, the other a dark grey stone weapon, the name of which was Oneone, that of the wooden weapon being the Haemata.
