1. (noun) north.

1. (personal noun) late autumn.

1. (numeral) ten, tenth (following te) - used in a similar way to tekau but less frequently. Combines with other words to form the numbers from 11 to 19.

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1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - starts growing like a puffball, but later, when the ball bursts, a white basket-like shape breaks out. When mature this breaks loose and rolls off in the wind, scattering its spores on the way. Found in clearings in the bush or in open country in summer to autumn.

1. (noun) fungus icicles, Hericium clathroides - a many-branched fungus that grows on trees and has branches with pointed tips hanging down like icicles. Initially the fungus is white, but becomes pinkish with age. Fairly common on the trunks of trees in summer and autumn.

1. (noun) mosaic puffball, Calvatia caelata - a ball-shaped fungus, solid when young, but full of dust-like spores when mature. It is covered with a mosaic pattern. Found mostly in pastures in summer and autumn.

1. (noun) tanguru chafer, Stethaspis suturalis - a beetle with a yellow stripe on its back. Common in native forest and pine plantations in summer. Flys with a buzzing sound soon after dark. Its larva stage is a large white grub, called papahu, that feeds on tree roots.

1. (noun) cicada of various species - there are about 40 species of cicada in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Some live in the forest, some on coastal sand dunes, others in the mountain tops. Cicadas have a blunt head and tapering body, cannot jump but can fly. They are noted for the male's loud summer mating call, the song of each species being distinctive. The wingless cicada nymph (matua kihikihi) lives underground for at least three years, sucking roots. When ready to hatch, it crawls out onto a tree trunk at dawn and the winged adult breaks out of its old nymph skin (ngengeti) and flies away.

1. (noun) taupata, Coprosma repens - a large native shrub or low creeper-like plant with very glossy leaves, often rolled under at the edges. Found on cliffs and sand dunes of the North Island and the northern South Island. Fruit bright orange and borne only on female plants from summer to autumn.

1. (noun) puffball, Lycoperdon perlatum - ball-shaped fungi which, though solid when young, are full of dust-like spores when mature. Found mostly in pastures and along the edge of native bush in summer and autumn.

1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - starts growing like a puffball, but later, when the ball bursts, a white basket-like shape breaks out. When mature this breaks loose and rolls off in the wind, scattering its spores on the way. Found in clearings in the bush or in open country in summer to autumn.

1. (noun) stingray, skate - a general term and see below.

1. (noun) field mushroom, Agaricus campestris - a mushroom with a white or fawnish cap and pinkish gills which turn brown as the mushroom matures. Common in pastures in summer and autumn.

1. (noun) mangeao, Litsea calicaris - a many-branched, endemic tree with leathery, shiny leaves 5-12 cm long and up to 5 cm wide. Theinsignificant flowers are scented, with male and female flowers on separate trees. The female trees bear black drupes in autumn.

1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - a fungi found in forest margins, parks and gardens in deep litter in summer to autumn. Named after the round white net-like basket which forms when the egg ruptures and expands when it rains. The foul-smelling spore mass attracts flies that aid in spore dispersal.

1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - starts growing like a puffball, but later, when the ball bursts, a white basket-like shape breaks out. When mature this breaks loose and rolls off in the wind, scattering its spores on the way. Found in clearings in the bush or in open country in summer to autumn.

1. (adjective) be thin (not of people's physique), fine (of texture).

1. (noun) soft mingimingi, tall mingimingi, Leucopogon fasciculatus - an open-branched, spreading small tree up to 5–6 m tall. Grows in coastal to lower montane shrubland, light forest and in rocky places up to 1150 metres from the Three Kings Islands to Canterbury. Trunk has flaky bark that peels off in thin strips. Leaves are thin and narrow with a sharp point (1–2.5 cm long by 2–4 mm wide) and are arranged in bundles or whorls on slender black stems. Small creamy greenish flowers in drooping racemes of 6 to 12 flowers in spring. They have a sweet fragrance. The small mostly red oblong berries (2-4mm long) occur in autumn.

1. (noun) perching lily, Collospermum hastatum - a native plant with long, broad, tufted, grass-like leaves with black leaf bases and arranged in fans. Grows in trees, on rocks or on the ground. Has green flowers, on spreading fingers. Fruit turns red in autumn.

1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - starts growing like a puffball, but later, when the ball bursts, a white basket-like shape breaks out. When mature this breaks loose and rolls off in the wind, scattering its spores on the way. Found in clearings in the bush or in open country in summer to autumn.