1. (noun) kōhūhū, Pittosporum tenuifolium - a small native black-barked tree of lowland forest and scrub, having light green leaves with a wavy margin. Commonly cultivated for hedges. Also called rautāhiri and tāwhiri.

1. (noun) bag, net attached to a hīnaki to guide the eels to the mouth.

1. (noun) cake of mashed hīnau berries or raupō pollen.

1. (personal name) (?-2009) Ngāti Awa. A fluent speaker, translator and promoter of Māori language, Wiha was a teacher for 15 years at pioneering Huntly immersion school Te Wharekura o Rākaumangamanga. She was a contributor to the Māori language dictionary, He Pātaka Kupu and a lead translator on the Māori Google project. More recently she was a language coach on Vincent Ward's film Rain of the Children, which was co-produced by her husband Tainui Stephens. Also known as Wiha Te Raki Hāwea.

1. (noun) queen pāua, austral abalone, silver pāua, yellow-footed pāua, Haliotis australis - an endemic mollusc to Aotearoa/New Zealand, the shell varying in size between 40 mm and 100 mm, silvery inside with a smooth criss-cross ridge pattern. The foot is a bright yellow-orange.

1. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to wrap food in leaves (for a hāngī).

1. all [she] has to do is, all [he] did was, all [they] had to do was - an idiom suggesting a course of action that should be done, or should have been done.

1. (noun) hīnau, Elaeocarpus dentatus - variation of hīnau. Tall forest tree with long leaves, whitish underneath and producing masses of white flowers and edible berries, the pounded kernels of which form a meal from which hīnau bread is baked, while the bark is used for dye.

1. (noun) flower fungus, Aseroe rubra - a fungus that grows in spring, usually found on the ground among whauwhaupaku, kōhūhū and koromiko trees.

1. (noun) kōhūhū, Pittosporum tenuifolium, Pittosporum colensoi - small native black-barked trees of lowland forest and scrub, having light green leaves with a wavy margin.

1. (noun) flower fungus, Aseroe rubra - a fungus that grows in spring, usually found on the ground among whauwhaupaku, kōhūhū and koromiko trees.

1. (verb) (-tia) to bid welcome, wave to, beckon, fan (a fire).

1. that's a load of rubbish, you're so wrong, you're so mistaken, that's totally incorrect - an idiom suggesting that in the opinion of the speaker the statement is incorrect. Rūkahu can be replaced by other similar words, e.g. whakaaro, pōhēhē.

1. (verb) to pop, crackle.

1. (noun) kōhūhū, Pittosporum tenuifolium, Pittosporum colensoi - small native black-barked trees of lowland forest and scrub, having light green leaves with a wavy margin.

1. (noun) Hoheria populnea, and H. glabrata, lacebarks.

1. (particle) very - an intensive used only with māngere, i.e. in the phrase māngere hōnia (very lazy).

1. (noun) supplejack, Ripogonum scandens - a high-climbing, woody native plant with tough pliant stems used in the construction of hīnaki, etc. Longish leaves are opposite, toothless, with obvious lengthwise parallel veins and the round fruit bright red. Stem is usually finger-thick, smooth and almost black.

1. is that so? won't you? won't we? isn't it? - interrogative emphasising a question, request or proposal and often followed by rā or hā.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 75;)

1. (personal name) according to some versions of the creative narratives, he separated his parents Rangi-nui and Papa-tū-ā-nuku. Also known as Rangi-hāpainga.

(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 40-42;)