mauku
1. (noun) filmy ferns, Hymenophyllum spp. - mostly creeping, perching native ferns with thin, translucent fronds. Common in damp forest, mostly on tree trunks but also sometimes on rocks or on the ground.
Ka whārikitia ki te kiokio ki te mauku ka whakatakotoria ki runga (TP 8/1903:6). / Kiokio fern and mauku fern were laid out and it was placed on top.
2. (noun) dwarf cabbage tree, pigmy cabbage tree, Cordyline pumilio - found in the northern half of the North Island in scrubby areas. Has a short stem and long narrow leaves and does not grow higher than 1 m.
See also tī rauriki
Synonyms: kōpuapua, korokio, tī koraha, tī rauriki
tī koraha
1. (noun) dwarf cabbage tree, pigmy cabbage tree, Cordyline pumilio - found in the northern half of the North Island in scrubby areas. Has a short stem and long narrow leaves and does not grow higher than 1 m.
See also korokio, mauku, tī, tī rauriki
Synonyms: kōpuapua, korokio, mauku, tī rauriki
tī rauriki
1. (noun) dwarf cabbage tree, pigmy cabbage tree, Cordyline pumilio - found in the northern half of the North Island in scrubby areas. Has a short stem and long narrow leaves and does not grow higher than 1 m.
Me kī, he reka atu ngā rākau iti, pērā i te tī rauriki (Te Ara 2013). / Generally speaking, the smaller trees taste sweeter, such as dwarf cabbage trees.
See also tī
tōī
1. (noun) broad-leaved cabbage tree, mountain cabbage tree, Cordyline indivisa - found from 450 to 1350 m altitude in higher rainfall areas from the Coromandel Range to Fiordland on the West Coast and Banks Peninsula. Has a stout, unbranched trunk topped with a large head of sword-shaped leaves with a reddish midrib 1-2 m long.
See also tī
korokio
1. (noun) korokio, Corokia cotoneaster - a native shrub with alternating spoon-shaped long leaves, silvery white below and bright yellow, star-like flowers. Fruit is bright red to yellow. Has black bark and tangled zigzag branches; Corokia buddleoides - a native shrub with long, narrow, alternating leaves, silvery white below. Bright yellow flowers are star-like and the fruit dark red to black.
See also korokio tāranga
Synonyms: korokio tāranga
2. (noun) dwarf cabbage tree, pigmy cabbage tree, Cordyline pumilio - found in the northern half of the North Island in scrubby areas. Has a short stem and long narrow leaves and does not grow higher than 1 m.
See also mauku, tī rauriki
Synonyms: kōpuapua, mauku, tī koraha, tī rauriki
tī pore
1. (noun) Pacific Island cabbage tree, Cordyline fruticosa, Cordyline terminalis - an introduced species of cabbage tree.
Ka whakatipuria te tī pore mō tana more, inarā, whai muri i te paopao me te tao ki te hāngī, ka reka rawa atu hei kai (Te Ara 2011). / Pacific cabbage tree was grown for its tap root, which, after pounding and steaming in an earth oven, was sweet and edible.
See also tī
waitī
1. (modifier) sweet, melodious.
He wā tōna ka waiata tahi tātou, he wā anō ka whakarongo kau noa ki te reo waitī o Tūī e kawe ana i ētahi o ngā titonga nei. / At some stage we will sing together, and at others we'll just listen to the sweet voice of Tūī illustrating some of these compositions.
2. (noun) sap of the cabbage tree.
2. (verb) to grow.
3. (verb) to spring up, develop.
Nō ngā tau o te 1960 ka whanake mai ngā rōpū mautohe (Te Ara 2014). / Protest movements developed from the 1960s.
4. (verb) to rise.
Ka haere a Tū-rāhui ki waho whakahāereere ai i te tamaiti; kātahi ka titiro atu ki te rā e whanake ana i te huapae o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (JPS 1913:176). / Tū-rāhui went outside to stroll about with the child. Then he looked at the sun rising on the horizon of the Pacific Ocean.
5. (noun) cabbage tree, Cordyline australis - a palm-like tree with strong, long, narrow leaves; the young inner leaves are eaten both raw and cooked. This variety is found throughout the country in a variety of habitats. The young tree has long narrow leaves which arise from a single trunk. As it matures the trunk becomes bare and branches out.
Pēnā tonu te rere a te kererū i te wā e mau ana tēnā kākano, ā, tata noa ki te horonga o tērā kākano, o te whanake (JPS 1895:132). / The flight of the New Zealand pigeon is like that during the time that the fruit lasts and until just before the seeds of the cabbage tree falls.
tī
1. (noun) cabbage trees of various species - palm-like trees with strong leaves; the young inner leaves are eaten both raw and cooked.
Mea rawa ake ka mau a Hotupuku ki roto i tētahi tāwhiti i rangaa i te rau o te tī (Te Ara 2013). / Very soon Hotupuku was caught in a noose woven from cabbage tree leaves.
2. (noun) edible stem of the cabbage tree (Cordyline spp.).
Ko te kai a aua hapū, he tī (kāuru) e tipu ana i te whenua nei, he aruhe (TPH 29/9/1900:2). / The food of those kinship groups was cabbage tree stems, which grows in this country, and edible fern root.
nanī
1. (noun) wild cabbage, Brassica oleracea - an introduced plant.
Ko tēnei hanga ko te huka, i whakanohoia e te Atua, ki te kānga, ki te kūmara, ki te pōwhata, ki te nani, ki te pātangatanga, ki te tāwhara, ki te tī tawhiti, ki te tini me te mano o ngā taru o te ao (KO 15/3/1884:9). / This thing, sugar, was placed by God in corn, kūmara, wild turnip, wild cabbage, fruit of the kiekie, edible bracts of the kiekie, edible cabbage tree, and a host of the world's plants.
2. (noun) mustard.
He rite ki te pua nani (PT Ruka 13:19). / It is like a grain of mustard seed.
tī ngahere
1. (noun) forest cabbage tree, Cordyline banksii - produces several stems near the ground with large droopy leaves. Found on forest margins and damper places from North Cape to Westport.
See also tī
2. (noun) wild cabbage, Brassica oleracea - an introduced plant.
