2. (noun) beetle - especially the brown beetle of the huhu when developing from larva to pupa. Also used for beetles that fly about clumsily at night.
Tērā ētahi o ngā uri a Tāne i mau i roto i ngā rākau ka hinga – te tātaka me te pepe (Te Ara 2013). / Inside the fallen trees were some of Tāne’s descendants – the larva of the huhu beetle, and the butterfly.
pāpapa
1. (noun) eggshell, husk, chaff, bran.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 27;)
He uru hua rākau rahi anō tō rāua, ā, e 60 eka te rahi o te whenua whakatipu ōti, whakatipu pāri, hai pāpapa whāngai i ngā hōiho (TTR 1998:159). / They had a large orchard and 60 acres growing oats and barley to make chaff to feed the horses.
2. (noun) squash, kamokamo - a variety of vegetable marrow. This word seems to be peculiar to the northern Ngāti Kahungunu region.
He pēnā anō ngā tōhuka, ngā kānga, ngā pāpapa, ngā merengi, ngā kākāriki, ngā taro me ngā rīwai (HP 1991:14). / The sugar cane, maize, kamokamo, melons, rock melons, taro and potatoes were exactly the same.
3. (noun) beetle - used as a general term for beetles.
E whā ngā momo pāpapa i mau i a mātau (Ng 1995:30). / We caught four kinds of beetles.
4. (noun) common tiger beetle, Cicindela tuberculata, Neocicindela tuberculata - an endemic tiger beetle to Aotearoa/New Zealand. Adults are ground predators and larvae may live for several years in a hole in the ground, and grab and eat passing insects. Adults are commonly seen on clay banks in summer, running around and making short flights as they hunt other insects.
6. (noun) slater, pill bug, sow bug, woodlice - terrestrial Isopoda which vary slightly in appearance, but most are conspicuous and easily recognised by their elliptical, flattened segmented bodies, and seven pairs of legs. Colour is usually in the shades of grey, from dark to light, often mottled with green and yellow. Aotearoa/New Zealand slaters range in size from several millimetres to more than 2 cm in length. Slaters are mainly scavengers, feeding on a variety of decaying vegetation, tree bark, rotting wood, etc.
7. (noun) gumdiggers' soap, golden Tainui, kūmarahou, Pomaderris kumeraho - a native shrub with alternating, blue-green leaves on top and undersides pale with protruding veins. Flowers are creamy yellow in large, fluffy clusters. The whole plant is covered in a soft mat of hair. Found north of Bay of Plenty and Kāwhia.
See also kūmarahou
Synonyms: kūmara rau nui, kūmarahou
8. (noun) koropuka, bush snowberry, fool's beech, Gaultheria antipoda - native bushy shrub bearing rounded small leathery toothed leaves on hairy twigs. Hairs on twigs black mixed with shorter paler hairs. Flowers white, bell-shaped, solitary at base of leaf. Leaves alternating on stem, 7-10mm long by 6-10mm wide, sometimes much smaller at tip of twig, Fruit red or white.
See also koropuka
Synonyms: koropuka, takapo, tāwiniwini, taupuku
kiriwai
1. (noun) mānuka chafer beetle, Pyronota festiva - a beetle that feeds on mānuka leaves.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 58;)
See also kēkerewai
Synonyms: reporepowai, kerewai, kēkerewai
kerewai
1. (noun) mānuka chafer beetle, Pyronota festiva - a beetle that feeds on mānuka leaves.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 58;)
See also kēkerewai
Synonyms: reporepowai, kēkerewai, kiriwai
kēkerewai
1. (noun) mānuka chafer beetle, Pyronota festiva - a beetle that feeds on mānuka leaves.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 58;)
Synonyms: reporepowai, kerewai, kiriwai
2. (modifier) used frequently.
Ka huihui atu ki te wāhi mutunga e ngaro i te tai, ki te ngaro taua wāhi i te moana ka rere ki ngā wāhi onepū muremure, kāore he otaota, kāore he aha, ka noho i reira pēhea te nunui o te kāhui, he tatari kia wātea ngā tāhuna i te tai (TP 1/11/1901:1). / They gather at the last place that disappears under the tide, and when that part disappears under the tide they fly to the beaches they frequent where there is no vegetation, nothing at all and stay there no matter how large the flock is, waiting until the sand bank re-emerges from the sea.
3. (noun) tiger beetle lava, penny doctor, butcher boy, Cicindela tuberculata, Neocicindela tuberculata - an endemic tiger beetle to Aotearoa/New Zealand. Adults are ground predators and larvae may live for several years in a hole in the ground, and grab and eat passing insects.
tunga rere
1. (noun) huhu beetle, Prionoplus reticularis - Aotearoa/New Zealand's largest beetle. Found in forests.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 27;)
See also pepe te muimui
Synonyms: tunga, tunga rākau, pepe te muimui, tunga haere
pepe te muimui
1. (noun) huhu beetle, Prionoplus reticularis - Aotearoa/New Zealand's largest beetle. Found in forests.
Synonyms: tunga, tunga rākau, tunga rere, tunga haere
3. (noun) insect, beetle.
Ko te kupu ‘pepeke’, mō te kakama o te nekeneke haere. Mō ngā ngārara katoa te karangatanga nei (Te Ara 2012). / The word 'pepeke' means to move quickly, and this term is used for all insects.
See also aitanga pepeke, aitanga-a-pēpeke
4. (noun) branch, limb.
6. (noun) prickly dogfish, Oxynotus bruniensis - has a deep humpbacked body, triangular in cross-section and a trunk snout. Widespread in Aotearoa/New Zealand waters at depths of 45-1120 m.
tākituri
1. (noun) house borer, Anobium punctatum - a beetle just 2-6 mm long but the grub can destroy untreated timber used in buildings and furniture. Grub lives for up to five years, but the adult beetle lives for no longer than a month and never eats. The flying beetle emerges from the wood in summer. An introduced species now found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand.
2. (noun) tree daisy, Olearia albida - a shrub or small tree found in North Island coastal forest or scrub. Has narrow, oblong, pale green, leathery leaves with wavy margins and felt-like undersides. Bears white daisies in summer and autumn.
3. (noun) Olearia furfuracea - a well-branched shrub found in scrub and forest margins of the North Island. The oval leaves are dark green and leathery with woolly, down-like hairs underneath. Clusters of starry-petalled white daisies appear in summer.
See also akepiro
Synonyms: wharangi piro, kūmara kai torouka
