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roroi

1. (verb) (-a) to grate into a pulp.

Kei te roroi i te kūmara ... hei ō ki te taua i Maketū (W 1971:245). / The kūmara is grated as food for the war party at Maketū.

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2. (verb) (-a) to scrape together, gather.

Synonyms: ope


3. (noun) basket.

Synonyms: kete, rawhi, raurau, taiaroa, rahu, rourou


4. (noun) grated kūmara.

Ka hiahia a Papa-pou-namu ki te haere ki Kaihu. Ka tae, ka kite i te kūmara, i te taro, i te uwhi, i te roroi, i te kao (JPS 1923:233). / Papa-pounamu wanted to go to Kaihu. When he arrived there, he saw the kūmara, taro, yams, the grated kūmara and the dried kūmara.

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rawhi

1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to grasp, seize, hold firmly, surround.

I te ata hāpara o te 1 o Hepetema ka rawhia tana puni i Te Hāpua (ko Ruahapū rānei) e tū tata atu ana ki Te Whāiti (TTR 1990:385). / At dawn on 1 September they surrounded his camp at Te Hāpua (or Ruahapu), near Te Whāiti.

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Synonyms: hopu, rawhirawhi, romi, kōhaki, herepū, hopuhopu, kōwhakiwhaki, rarahu, rarawhi, aurara


2. (noun) clip, clamp.


3. (noun) basket.

Tēnei anō taku rawhi mākari ake nei, e hiahiatia ana e tōku ngākau kia utaina ki tō waka (TWMNT 16/5/1856:116). / This is my small basket which I wish to place on your canoe (newspaper).

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Synonyms: raurau, kete, roroi, rourou, taiaroa, rahu

popowhaitiri

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.

korokorowhetū

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.

tūtae whatitiri

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.

wheterau

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.

paruwhatitiri

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.

tūtae whetū

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.

matakupenga

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.

kōpurawhetū

1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - an endemic species of fungus. The fruiting bodies are shaped somewhat like a round or oval ball with interlaced or latticed branches. The mature fruiting body is foul-smelling and covered with a slime layer containing spores on the inner surfaces.

kōkirikiriwhetū

1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - an endemic species of fungus. The fruiting bodies are shaped somewhat like a round or oval ball with interlaced or latticed branches. The mature fruiting body is foul-smelling and covered with a slime layer containing spores on the inner surfaces.

tikowhatitiri

1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - an endemic species of fungus. The fruiting bodies are shaped somewhat like a round or oval ball with interlaced or latticed branches. The mature fruiting body is foul-smelling and covered with a slime layer containing spores on the inner surfaces.

naku

1. (transitive verb) dig, scratch.


2. bewitch.


3. (noun) basket made of strips of flaz.

rourou

1. (noun) small flax plaited food basket.

Ko ngā pereti kai he rourou; kāore he paoka, kāore he naihi, arā i tino whakaritea katoatia ki tā te Māori tikanga (TP 1/12/1900:14). / The eating plates were flax food baskets; there were no knives and forks, that is everything was organised according to Māori custom.

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Synonyms: raurau, kete, rawhi, roroi, taiaroa, rahu

poti tara

1. (noun) food basket, large square-bottomed basket for cooked food for distinguished visitors.

E pūranga kau ana ngā pārō, ngā poti tara, ngā pohewa (W 1971:287). / The small food baskets, the larger food baskets and the food receptacles just lay in a heap.

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tokanga

1. (noun) large basket for food, hamper, picnic basket.

Kia mau te tokanga nui a Noho (W 1971:433). / The large basket is kept for Stay-at-Home.

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poti whakatara

1. (noun) food basket, large square-bottomed basket for cooked food for distinguished visitors.

See also poti tara

Synonyms: poti whakauru

poti whakauru

1. (noun) food basket, large square-bottomed basket for cooked food for distinguished visitors.

See also poti tara

Synonyms: poti whakatara

rahu

1. (noun) basket - made of strips of undressed flax for collecting food, etc.

He mahi pai ki a ia te raranga whāriki, waikawa, rahu, kāwhiu, kete, ā, kōpae hoki (TTTT 2006:39). / She liked weaving mats, course mats, baskets of undressed harakeke, baskets for collecting seafood, kits and round baskets.

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Synonyms: raurau, kete, rawhi, roroi, rourou, taiaroa

kāwhiu

1. (noun) basket used in collecting seafood - used exclusively when diving for kina, pāua and kuku. It has a wide mesh and a rope at the opening edge so that it can be closed when swimming back to shore.

He mahi pai ki a ia te raranga whāriki, waikawa, rahu, kāwhiu, kete, ā, kōpae hoki (TTTT 2006:39). / She liked weaving mats, course mats, baskets of undressed harakeke, baskets for collecting seafood, kits and round baskets.
I ērā wā āta rarangatia ai e ngā māmā, e ngā kuia he kete motuhake hai hari mā ngā kairuku o te whānau ki te moana. He kāwhiu te ingoa o ngā kete nei. He kete nunui mō te ruku kaimoana anake (WT 2013:28). / In those times the aunties and elderly women plaited special baskets for the divers of the family to take to the sea. These baskets were called kāwhiu. They were large and used exclusively for diving for seafood.

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