kahikatea
1. (noun) kahikatea, white pine, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides - a tall coniferous tree of mainly swampy ground, the leaves are scale-like and soft to touch.
Ka titiro a Wairangi, ko ngā poupou o te whare he kōhurihuri kahikatea (JPS 1910:198). / Wairangi looked and noticed that the side posts of the house were of sapling white pine.
See also kahika
kāpara
1. (noun) hard resinous wood (of rimu, kahikatea, etc.).
Mahia ai te tao i te tawa, te kāpara, ā, hei ētahi wā mahia mai ai te aka (Te Ara 2015). / Bird spears were made from tawa wood, resinous heartwood of rimu or kahikatea, and sometimes of the stems of climbing plants.
Synonyms: katea
2. (verb) to be scattered, separated.
Ka whiua e ia ngā huruhuru o te manu ki raro, ki te take o te rākau, koi hautea te huruhuru, koi katea haere i te ngāherehere, koi putu haere (W 1971:42). / He threw down the feathers of the bird to the base of the tree, lest they be scattered and spread around the forest in heaps.
Synonyms: tīrangaranga, tīrangorango, kūwawa, maheu, korara, mirara, pirara, mahora, marara, kaupararī, tīrara, tīrararara, papata, wawā, wāwā, whakawawā, makatea, mātiritiri, kaupāpari, kātohatoha, pahara, paihore, whakapirara, pīwawa
2. (noun) fruit of the kahikatea.
Ka kīia ngā hua o te kahikatea he koroī (Te Ara 2015). / The fruit of the kahikatea tree is called koroī.
3. (noun) cone.
Ko te koroī te taihemahema o tēnei rōpū rākau (RP 2009:364). / The cone of this class of trees is the reproductive organ.
2. (noun) a large white grub, Prionoplis reticularis,which attacks kahikatea (white pine) and other trees.
2. (noun) wood saturated in resin.
Te rahokoroheke he heru, he mea hanga ki te māpara kahika (W 1971:179). / The 'rahokoroheke' was a comb made of resinous kahikatea wood.
3. (noun) castanets.
E tauparoro ana ngā māpara kia ū ai rātou ki te manawataki o te kanikani (PK 2008:394). / The castanets are playing so that they can keep to the rhythm of the dance.
He rite ngā māpara ki ngā ngutu o te pārera te hanga, arā, e rua ngā papa pakipaki iti ka hangaia ki te rākau, ki te kōiwi, ki te kōhatu, ki te kotakota rānei. Ka puritia ki te ringa, ā, mā te huaki me te kati i te kōnui me te kōroa e hāmama ai (RTP 2010:73). / Castanets are made like the lips of of a grey duck, that is, two small flat clappers are made of wood, bone, stone or shells. They are held with the hand and by opening and closing the thumb and index finger they make a noise.
ngāpara
1. (noun) resinous wood - of trees such as kahikatea and rimu used as a torch, or to provide soot for moko.
Kātahi ka mau te iwi ki te ahi, he rama, arā, ko ā te Māori rama, he ngāpara (JPS 1893:215). / Then the people took up their lighted torches, that is the traditional Māori torches of resinous wood.
