inanga
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a small silvery-white native fish with a slender body. Found in streams, rivers, lakes, swamps and pools throughout the coastal regions of Aotearoa/New Zealand up to 215 km inland. Forms small to large schools. Maximum size 190 mm. Adults mature at 1 year and migrate downstream on new or full moons to spawn when the spring tide floods marginal vegetation. Eggs are left amongst the vegetation out of the water and hatch at the next spring tide.
Ka nui te whaikōrero, ka tukua te kai, arā, te tuna, te inanga, te kōura, te toitoi (JPS 1901:74). / After a lot of speech-making, food was presented, that is eels, whitebait, crayfish and giant bully.
2. (noun) a whitish or creamy-coloured variety of greenstone.
Ko te pounamu tuatahi i kitea e ia, he inanga; i kitea atu ki te inanga ika nei, e tau ana mai i roto i te awa (JPS 1913:113). / The first greenstone he saw was that kind called 'inanga', it was seen in the river with the fish called 'inanga' (whitebait).
3. (noun) inanga, Dracophyllum longifolium, grass tree - a tree up to 12 m high found from south of East Cape to Stewart Island. Has slender erect or spreading branches. Rigid, leathery grass-like leaves are usually crowded towards the tip of the branchlets.
4. (noun) bamboo.
īnanga
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a small silvery-white native fish with a slender body. Found in streams, rivers, lakes, swamps and pools throughout the coastal regions of Aotearoa/New Zealand up to 215 km inland. Forms small to large schools. Maximum size 190 mm. Adults mature at 1 year and migrate downstream on new or full moons to spawn when the spring tide floods marginal vegetation. Eggs are left amongst the vegetation out of the water and hatch at the next spring tide.
Ko te hao hopu i ngā īnanga me ngā ngāore, he hiraka mā (HP 1991:17). / The net for catching whitebait and smelt was of white silk.
2. (noun) a whitish, pale grey-green or creamy-coloured variety of greenstone.
Ko te pounamu tuatahi i kitea e ia, he īnanga; i kitea atu ki te īnanga ika nei, e tau ana mai i roto i te awa; kātahi ka tahuri ki te haohao, ka whātoro te ringa o Hine-te-uira-i-waho ki te wai, ka riro ake te kōwhatu hei punga mō te kupenga haohao, kia totohu ai ki roto i te wai. Ka kitea, e! he kōwhatu rerekē tēnei kōwhatu; ka kīia tēnā kōwhatu he īnanga (JPS 1913:113). / The first type of greenstone he saw was the kind called 'īnanga', because it was seen with īnanga the fish (whitebait), which he proceeded to catch. When Hine-te-uira-i-waho stretched out her hand into the water to get a stone as a sinker for the net, to sink it in the water, this stone was seen to be quite different, hence the name 'īnanga'.
3. (noun) grass tree, Dracophyllum longifolium - a shrub from 1 m to 10 m tall with black, deeply fissured bark. Leaves are longitudinally channelled and minutely serrate. Found in the South Island and Stewart Island, except in eastern Nelson, Marlborough and Canterbury. Also known as īnaka.
īnanga papa
1. (noun) common smelt, Retropinna retropinna - slender small silvery endemic freshwater fish that move about in shoals and growing to about 165 mm long. Found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. Spawn in the reaches of rivers in summer and autum then dying. Lavae washed to sea, some returning with whitebait, others returning only as adults.
atutai
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a term used for inanga when it is returning to the sea.
See also inanga
atutahi
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a term used for inanga when returning to the sea.
See also inanga
karohe
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a term used for inanga when it is migrating upstream.
See also inanga
karohi
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a term used for inanga when it is migrating upstream.
See also inanga
pūkōareare
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a Ngāi Tahu term for the earliest inanga to enter the rivers.
See also inanga
2. (modifier) expert, clever, professional.
Ko te whai a taua kāreti he whakatakatū i ngā taitama Māori mō ngā mahi ngaio (TTR 1996:277). / That college aimed to prepare Māori youths for professional careers.
Synonyms: ringa ngaio, ringa rehe, ringa whaiutu, mātanga
3. (noun) professional, academic.
Heoi he torutoru noa ngā ngaio Māori i roto i te rautau 1900, ā, ko te nuinga he kaiako kura, he tāpuhi, minita hoki (Te Ara 2016). / However, through the 20th century there were few Māori professionals, and the majority were teachers, nurses and the ministers.
Synonyms: mātauranga
4. (noun) ngaio, Myoporum laetum - a small tree with poisonous leaves and fruit. The leaves have pale, dot-like oil glands which are visible when held up to the light. The timber is white. The small white flowers have purple markings. Found throughout coastal areas of the North and South Islands, except for Southland.
Titiro ki taku pā ngaio ki runga o Moe-atoa (JPS 1908:119). / Look at my grove of ngaio trees on Moe-atoa.
5. (noun) horsehair worm, Gordius spp. - a parasitic worm found throughout the world. In Aotearoa/New Zealand it infests kākā, kōkopu, inanga and wētā. The adult worm is a free-living animal. It is hairlike, very long and very thin.
tūtuna
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a large variety.
See also inanga
2. (noun) Coridodax pullus, butterfish.
2. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - full grown whitebait which have spawned and are in poor condition.
See also inanga
hiwi
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a small silvery-white native fish with a slender body. Found in streams, rivers, lakes, swamps and pools throughout the coastal regions of Aotearoa/New Zealand up to 215 km inland. Forms small to large schools. Maximum size 190 mm. Adults mature at 1 year and migrate downstream on new or full moons to spawn when the spring tide floods marginal vegetation. Eggs are left amongst the vegetation out of the water and hatch at the next spring tide.
See also inanga
2. fry of inanga fish.
mārearea
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a small silvery-white native fish with a slender body. Found in streams, rivers, lakes, swamps and pools throughout the coastal regions of Aotearoa/New Zealand up to 215 km inland. Forms small to large schools. Maximum size 190 mm. Adults mature at 1 year and migrate downstream on new or full moons to spawn when the spring tide floods marginal vegetation. Eggs are left amongst the vegetation out of the water and hatch at the next spring tide.
See also inanga
kāraraha
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - full grown whitebait which have spawned and are in poor condition.
See also inanga
