2. (personal noun) ninth lunar month of the Māori lunar calendar - approximately equivalent to February and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
Ko te putanga mai o Matariki te tohu mō te marama tuatahi, ko ngā ingoa hoki ēnei o ngā marama katoa: Te Tahi o Pipiri, Te Rua o Takurua,Te Toru Here o Pipiri, Te Whā o Mahuru, Te Rima o Kōpū, Te Ono o Whitiānaunau, Te Whitu o Hakihea, Te Waru o Rehua, Te Iwa o Rūhī-te-rangi, Te Ngahuru o Poutū-te-rangi, Te Ngahuru mā tahi, Te Ngahuru mā rua (TP 1/3/1901:6). / The appearance of Pleiades is the sign for the first month and these are the names of all the months: The first is Pipiri, the second is Takurua, the third is Here o Pipiri, the fourth is Mahuru, the fifth is Kōpū, the sixth is Whiti-ānaunau, the seventh is Hakihea, the eighth is Rehua, the ninth is Rūhi-te-rangi, the tenth is Poutūterangi, the eleventh and twelth months.
See also Huitanguru
Huitanguru
1. (personal noun) ninth lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to February.
Nō te Huitanguru i te tau 1949 i whānau ai taku teina. / In February 1949 my younger brother was born.
Huitanguru: Kua tau te waewae o Ruhi kai te whenua (Best 1922:16). / Huitanguru: Ruhi's foot rests on the land.
See also Rūhī-te-rangi
papa-kōura
1. (noun) willowherb, Epilobium microphyllum - an endemic tufted, creeping herb with woody bases, and numerous ascending, wiry, purple-black or black stems. White petals and flowers from December - February. Found from about Kāwhia and East Cape south, locally abundant around the Cook Strait region, thence mainly easterly in the South Island in gravelly or shingly riverbeds, flats and outwash plains from sea level to 1,200 m.
See also pāpapa-kōura
perehia
1. (noun) New Zealand wind grass, Lachnagrostis filiformis - common throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in coastal to subalpine open situations and often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground. Common around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins. Slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall.
2. (noun) sand wind grass, Lachnagrostis billardierei subsp. billardierei - a native mainly coastal grass on sand dunes, cobble and boulder beaches, on cliff faces, in free draining sites alongestuarine river banks, and fringing coastal ponds and lagoons. Sometimes on limestone or calcareous sandstone bluffs well inland. Stiffly tufted, glaucous to bluish-green perennial grass, 100-600 mm tall. Flowers August - February and fruits December - June.
āwheto
1. (noun) caterpillar of the kūmara moth, caterpillar of the convolvulus hawk moth, Agrius convolvuli - a large caterpillar that was a pest in gardens, eating the leaves of the kūmara. Burrows into the ground in February to become a chrysalis.
Ki ētahi iwi he āwheto te anuhe (TTT 1/12/1924:s44). / To some tribes 'āwheto' is another name for an 'anuhe' (caterpillar).
See also hīhue
2. (noun) vegetable caterpillar, Cordyceps robertsii - actually a type of fungus. When the caterpillar of some moths retreats underground to start to form into a pupa, preparing to develop into a moth, the fungus starts to grow using the caterpillar’s body for food. As the fungus grows, it forms a shell around the caterpillar’s body, and slowly the whole thing dries out. The caterpillar is slowly turned into a mummy and is dried and preserved in the fungal casing. The fungus feeds from the nutrients in the caterpillar’s body. It slowly grows a small stem through the head of the caterpillar, which is the part of the body closest to the forest floor. The stem grows slowly until it pushes through to the forest floor, eventually producing spores.
See also āwhato
pīnaki
1. (noun) New Zealand carrot, Daucus glochidiatus - an erect, yellow-green to dark reddish green, biennial up to 300-800 mm high, mostly sparingly branched. Reddish-pink to white flowers in September to February. A native found in coastal, lowland to montane on cliff faces, rock outcrops, talus slopes, in short tussockland or grassland and in open forest of the North, South and Chatham Islands.
Iho-mutu
1. (personal noun) nineth lunar month of the Māori year, approximately equivalent to February and traditionally used by Ngāti Kahungunu.
See also Huitanguru
2. (numeral) ninth - when used with this meaning it is preceded by te and followed by o.
I te iwa o Māehe ka uru mai a Kāwana Kerei mā runga i te kaipuke, i te Castor (TTR 1990:269). / On 9 March Governor Grey entered on the ship Castor.
Synonyms: tuaiwa
3. (numeral) grouping of nine.
Ko ia te Māori tuatahi i riro nāna te tari i whakahaere, ā, mau ana i a ia te tūranga nei mō te iwa tau (TTR 2000:187). / He was the first Māori to head the department and he held the position for nine years.
4. (numeral) combines with other words to form other numbers.
Ko te tini o ngā reo o te ao nei e tae ana ki te rua mano e iwa tekau mā whā (KO 15/8/1885:8). / The many languages of the world number two thousand and ninety four.
5. (noun) ninth month of the Māori lunar calendar - approximately equivalent to February.
Ko whiti ake ai te iwa o ngā marama, ka puta mai te taua puretumu a Ngāti Hauā ki Parahaki, ki te kāinga i patua ai te tūpāpaku (JPS 1990:19). / The ninth month had passed when Ngāti Hauā's party seeking redress appeared at Parahaki, at the village where the victim was killed.
makora
1. (noun) swamp aster, Olearia semidentata - a beautiful daisy endemic to the Chatham Islands where it is found in peaty ground and bogs. Can grow 2–3 m tall. Flowers appear over the summer months from November, fruiting follows in January and February. The colour of the ray florets is variable, often starting purple and fading to pink or white over time. The disc florets are dark purple. Leaves are dark green with white tomentum (a covering of short dense hairs) underneath and younger stems are often covered with the same.
pāpapa-kōura
1. (noun) willowherb, Epilobium microphyllum - an endemic tufted, creeping herb with woody bases, and numerous ascending, wiry, purple-black or black stems. White petals and flowers from December - February. Found from about Kāwhia and East Cape south, locally abundant around the Cook Strait region, thence mainly easterly in the South Island in gravelly or shingly riverbeds, flats and outwash plains from sea level to 1,200 m.
