pākeho
1. (noun) limestone.
Ko te hōanga me te pākeho hei tauira o te toka parataiao (RP 2009:407). / Sandstone and limestone are examples of sedimentary rock.
Synonyms: pākeho
pākeho
1. (noun) limestone, white clay.
I tōna kaumātuatanga ka noho a Maniapoto ki Te Ana-uriuri, tētehi ana pākeho kei te takiwā o Waitomo (Te Ara 2011). / In his old age Maniapoto lived in Te Ana-uriuri, a limestone cave in the region of Waitomo.
Synonyms: pākeho
ngākihi
1. (noun) limpet - a general term for limpets which clamp onto rocks and have cap-shaped shells. They move about at night or when the tide is in, grazing on small algae.
Nā, kei Pariwhero kei reira te wāhi i karapititia ai te ringa e te pāua ki te toka, ka pakaru te toto o te ringa o Kupe, whero tonu atu ngā pāua, ngā ngākihi, ngā pūpū o tērā wāhi, me ngā kōwhatu hoki tae mai ki tēnei rā e kīia ana (JPS 1927:275). / It was at Red Rocks, Sinclair Head, that his hand was pinched against a rock by a pāua, and the blood gushed forth from Kupe's hand and rendered red all the pāua, limpets and pūpū shellfish of that place, as well as the stones, and it is said that they are still red.
2. (noun) radiate limpet, Cellana radians - shell is fairly flat with radiating lines along the ribs. Some shells have a tortoiseshell design. Common between tides.
3. (noun) ornate limpet, Cellana ornata - shell usually tall with the outside having 11 radiating black bands, each with a row of white pimples. Common from mid to low tide.
4. (noun) golden limpet, Cellana flava - shell pale to bright orange inside and out. common on east coast limestone rocks between tides.
perehia
1. (noun) New Zealand wind grass, Lachnagrostis filiformis - common throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in coastal to subalpine open situations and often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground. Common around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins. Slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall.
2. (noun) sand wind grass, Lachnagrostis billardierei subsp. billardierei - a native mainly coastal grass on sand dunes, cobble and boulder beaches, on cliff faces, in free draining sites alongestuarine river banks, and fringing coastal ponds and lagoons. Sometimes on limestone or calcareous sandstone bluffs well inland. Stiffly tufted, glaucous to bluish-green perennial grass, 100-600 mm tall. Flowers August - February and fruits December - June.
