kōea
1. (noun) dysentry.
I taua hui, ka pāngia a Mākarini, te tama mātāmua a Ngata e te kōea (TTR 1996:108). / At the hui Mākarini, Ngata's eldest son, contracted dysentery.
See also mate kōea
2. (noun) long wooden trumpet - from 1 to 2 metres in length and made of wood and bound with vine. The mouthpiece was a finely carved human figure, and about 8 centimeters inside the cylinder was a tongue or valve of wood called tohetohe.
See also pūkāea
koea
1. (noun) Delcourt's sticky-toed gecko, Delcourt's giant gecko, Hoplodactylus delcourti - a species of lizard which was the largest of all geckos at over 600 mm long. Endemic to Aotearoa/New Zealand but now thought to be extinct.
Ka kitea te koea, he aituā, he kaupapa tahuri (W 1971:122). / When a Delcourt's sticky-toed gecko was seen, there was a misfortune, a failed project.
See also kaweau
mate kōea
1. (noun) dysentery.
Ko ia anō hoki ki te toha rongoā atu mō ngā mate itiiti noa nei, pērā i tētahi rongoā pani i mahia mai e ia i te pūngāwhā me te hinu, hei pani i ngā mate pēnei i te ipuipu nei, me ngā rongoā i mahia mai e ia i ngā otaota māori mō ngā mate kōea, mate kōreke me te niho tunga (TTR 2000:95). / She also provided remedies for minor illness, such as an ointment made from sulphur and oils for open sores, and medicines from native plants for dysentery, constipation and toothache.
