īkara
1. (loan) (noun) eagle - large birds of prey with keen vision and powerful flight.
Ka ū rawa ngā matikuku me te ngutu o te īkara rā ki tāna kai, kātahi ka hikitia ake ka whakaangi haere i runga ake o te whenua, e toru, e whā putu te mataratanga ake (TWMNT 6/10/1874:258). / With the claws and beak of that eagle firmly fixed on its food, it then raised her up and sailed along at three to four feet above the earth.
See also ēkara
whai repo
1. (noun) eagle ray, Myliobatis tenuicaudatus - a ray with greenish-grey upper surface and blue markings, pale yellow-white below. Tail is thin with small spines and a small dorsal fin at the base. Head thick and protruding, eyes lateral. Most abundant from Cook Strait north over soft sediments and rocky reefs from 0-422 m.
Synonyms: whai keo
2. (noun) short-tail stingray, Dasyatis brevicaudata - disc quadrangular, flattened and slightly wider than long. Tail stout at the base, broad and flattened, narrowing rapidly to the sting. Plain greyish to light brown, whitish to cream ventrally. Bottom-dwelling marine ray widespread in coastal waters of the Southern Hemisphere at depths of 5-300 m. Adults common inshore during summer and autumn.
3. (noun) log-tail stingray, Dasyatis thetidis - one of the largest species of marine stingrays and may reach 210 kg. Uniformly greyish to black dorsally, white to creamish ventrally, head slightly elevated and eyes are small. Tail stout at the base, tapering gradually. Widespread in subtropical and temperate waters off coasts. In Aotearoa/New Zealand occurs mainly north of east Cape.
See also whai
kanohi hōmiromiro
1. (noun) someone with an eye for detail, someone with keen eyesight, sharp sighted, sharp-eye, eagle-eye - a saying based on the observation that the hōmiromiro (tomtit) has keen eyesight and watches for its food on the ground and on trunks of trees, etc.
Kīia ai te tangata karu tore, ‘he kanohi hōmiromiro’ (Te Ara 2015). / A sharp-eyed person is called a 'kanohi hōmiromiro’ (tomtit eyes).
whai keo
1. (noun) eagle ray, Myliobatis tenuicaudatus - a ray with greenish-grey upper surface and blue markings, pale yellow-white below. Tail is thin with small spines and a small dorsal fin at the base. Head thick and protruding, eyes lateral. Most abundant from Cook Strait north over soft sediments and rocky reefs from 0-422 m.
tīwhera
1. (verb) to be open, expanded, spread, spread-eagled.
Ka eke a Ruatapu ki te takere o te waka, ka tīwheratia ngā kūhā o Rua ki tētahi taha, ki tētahi taha o te waka (White 3 1889:20). / Ruatapu climbed onto the keel of the canoe with his thighs spread apart on each side of the canoe.
Synonyms: marake, pūaha, tuwhera, māhorahora, matata, matatea, areare, kohera, tuhera, wātea, whakaareare, whakapuare, whewhera, uaki, mawhera, koraha, mārakerake, kohea, ango, puare, tīwara, tūmatanui, pawhera, hemahema, whakatuwhera, whakatuhera, huaki, poare, hīrikore, are, pōaha, puakaha, raha, tūraha, tawhera
2. (modifier) (-tia) spread-eagled, spread.
Kāore he wāhi o taua awa e nui atu ana i te toru putu te whānui, nō reira heoi te tū tika mō te tangata he tū tīwhera, arā ko tētahi waewae i tētahi taha o te awa tū ai, ko tētahi waewae i tētahi taha, kia kore ai e tāwhiwhi te aho ki ngā rarauhe me ngā ponga (TWMNT 9/3/1875:58). / No part of that stream was wider than three feet, so the best way to stand was spread-eagled, that is with one foot on one side of the stream and the other foot on the other side so that the line would not become entangled with the bracken fern and silver fern trees.
ēkara
1. (loan) (noun) eagle - large birds of prey with keen vision and powerful flight.
I taua wā ka whakaatu tētahi tangata kua pakū noa atu te rongo ki ētahi wāhi kāore nei e mau ana te ēkara, arā te tohu o te haki o Rōma (TJ 16/8/1898:1). / At that time it showed a person that peace had extended to some parts that were not held by the eagle, that is the symbol of the flag of Rome.
