hamupēke
1. (loan) (noun) humpback whale, paikea, Megaptera novaeangliae.
Ko tēnei tū tohorā he tohorā tipua, kāore e pērā ana i ētahi atu tū āhua tohorā e patua ana i konei, arā i te hamupēke, i te pāmu-wēra (TP 10/1902:11). / This type of whale is a demon, it's not like some other kinds of whales which are killed here, such as the humpback and the sperm whale.
paikea
1. (noun) humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae - the most abundant large whale of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It is a baleen whale growing to 16 m long and has large knobby-edged flippers up to 4 m long.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 4;)
Ko te paikea me te parāoa ka hopukina i ēnei wā (Te Ara 1912). / The humpback and sperm whales were caught during these seasons.
See also hamupēke
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.
