korukoru
1. (noun) wild turkey, turkey, Meleagris gallopavo - a large introduced farm bird with a blue-and-red head.
Ka kai ngā hōia, he nui te kai mā te ope hōia, te korukoru me ērā atu manu, me te ika me ngā āhua kai katoa a te Pākehā (HKW 1/9/1901:2). / There was plenty of food for the troops, turkeys and other birds, fish and all sorts of Pākehā food.
Synonyms: pīpipi
korukoru
1. (noun) flower of the scarlet-flowered beech mistletoe, Peraxilla colensoi - a hemiparasitic bushy shrub with thick leaves and obscured viens. Flowers red, long and narrow, fruit oval and yellow. Found on tawhai, pōhutukawa and Pittosporum species.
See also pirita
2. (noun) indentation, cavity, nook, cavity.
I te pō ka mui ki uta ngā kororā, ki roto i te otaota o te ngahere ki runga ake o tātahi, ki roto rānei i ngā korukoru o ngā pari o te moana (TKM 30/8/1849:2). / At night the blue penguins swarm ashore into the vegetation in the bush above the beach, or into the hollows of the sea cliffs.
Synonyms: kona
Whenua Korukoru
1. (location) Turkey - a country in western Asia with a small enclave in SE Europe.
Hei te rā o ANZAC (25 o Āperira) ka whakamaumaharatia ngā hoia o Ahitereiria me Aotearoa i hinga ki ngā paenga ki Karipori, Whenua Korukoru i te tau 1915 (Te Ara 2016). / On Anzac Day (25 April) the soldiers of Australia and New Zealand who fell in the landing at Gallipoli, Turkey, in 1915 are remembered.
