2. (noun) mangrove, Avicennia marina - a native tree with oval, leathery leaves, dull white beneath, opposite, with curled edges. Flowers are dull yellow, small and sweet-smelling while the fruit is a yellow capsule. Found in coastal swamps in the northern part of the North Island and has pencil-like breathing roots that poke out of the mud.
paetai
1. (noun) mangrove, Avicennia marina - a native tree with oval, leathery leaves, dull white beneath, opposite, with curled edges. Flowers are dull yellow, small and sweet-smelling while the fruit is a yellow capsule. Found in coastal swamps in the northern part of the North Island and has pencil-like breathing roots that poke out of the mud.
waikure
1. (noun) mangrove, Avicennia marina - a native tree with oval, leathery leaves, dull white beneath, opposite, with curled edges. Flowers are dull yellow, small and sweet-smelling while the fruit is a yellow capsule. Found in coastal swamps in the northern part of the North Island and has pencil-like breathing roots that poke out of the mud.
katatai
1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.
He mea māhanga te katatai, me te moho (TW 11/9/1875:211). / The banded rail and the takahē were snared.
See also moho pererū
Synonyms: pepe, pātātai, oho, pūohotata, motarua, pōpōtai, ohomauri, moho, moho pererū
kākatai
1. (noun) reef heron, Egretta sacra - a slaty-grey heron with a long, heavy, grey to yellowish bill. Legs relatively short, yellow-green. Hunched and almost horizontal when feeding. Found in mangrove inlets, rocky shores, wave platforms and intertidal mudflats.
See also matuku moana
Synonyms: matuku nuia, matuku tai, matuku waitai, tīkāka, matuku moana, mātukutuku
matuku nuia
1. (noun) reef heron, Egretta sacra - a slaty-grey heron with a long, heavy, grey to yellowish bill. Legs relatively short, yellow-green. Hunched and almost horizontal when feeding. Found in mangrove inlets, rocky shores, wave platforms and intertidal mudflats.
See also matuku moana
Synonyms: matuku tai, matuku waitai, tīkāka, matuku moana, mātukutuku, kākatai
matuku tai
1. (noun) reef heron, Egretta sacra - a slaty-grey heron with a long, heavy, grey to yellowish bill. Legs relatively short, yellow-green. Hunched and almost horizontal when feeding. Found in mangrove inlets, rocky shores, wave platforms and intertidal mudflats.
See also matuku moana
Synonyms: matuku nuia, matuku waitai, tīkāka, matuku moana, mātukutuku, kākatai
matuku waitai
1. (noun) reef heron, Egretta sacra - a slaty-grey heron with a long, heavy, grey to yellowish bill. Legs relatively short, yellow-green. Hunched and almost horizontal when feeding. Found in mangrove inlets, rocky shores, wave platforms and intertidal mudflats.
See also matuku moana
Synonyms: matuku nuia, matuku tai, tīkāka, matuku moana, mātukutuku, kākatai
moho
1. (noun) North Island takahē, notornis, Porphyrio mantelli - extinct flightless endemic bird that looks like a large pūkeko with a greenish back. Sometimes used for the rare South Island takahē.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 108;)
He mea māhanga te katatai, me te moho (TW 11/9/1875:211). / The banded rail and the takahē were snared.
See also takahē
2. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.
See also moho pererū
Synonyms: pūohotata, motarua, pōpōtai, pepe, ohomauri, moho pererū, katatai, pātātai, oho
2. (noun) reef heron, Egretta sacra - a slaty-grey heron with a long, heavy, grey to yellowish bill. Legs relatively short, yellow-green. Hunched and almost horizontal when feeding. Found in mangrove inlets, rocky shores, wave platforms and intertidal mudflats.
Synonyms: matuku nuia, matuku tai, matuku waitai, tīkāka, mātukutuku, kākatai
pōpōtai
1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.
See also moho pererū
Synonyms: pepe, pātātai, oho, pūohotata, motarua, katatai, ohomauri, moho, moho pererū
oho
1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.
See also moho pererū
Synonyms: pepe, pātātai, pūohotata, motarua, pōpōtai, katatai, ohomauri, moho, moho pererū
ohomauri
1. (verb) to jump into action, start suddenly, startle, astonish, astound, shock.
Ohomauri ana te tangata i tēnei whakaaturanga (TP 1/11/1901:5). / One was astounded by this revelation.
Synonyms: oho mauri, mōketekete, whiti, ohorere, whētuki, whakaanuanu, hiko
2. (noun) surprise, shock.
Ka mea atu a Kāpene Kuku kia taraitia te pupuhi i te pū. Kātahi ka purua, ka whakapiria ki te pāpāringa, kātahi ka pūhia. Nō te pakūnga he ohomauri anake; tāia ana te pū rā ki runga ki te kōhatu, whati tonu atu, whiua atu hoki ki te wai (TWMNT 11/8/1874:203). / Captain Cook told him to try shooting the gun. The gun was then loaded and he held it to his check and fired it. When it exploded he got such a fright that he threw it down on the stones and it broke, and he threw it into the water.
3. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.
See also moho pererū
Synonyms: moho, pepe, moho pererū, pātātai, oho, pūohotata, motarua, pōpōtai, katatai
pātātai
1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.
See also moho pererū
Synonyms: pepe, oho, pūohotata, motarua, pōpōtai, katatai, ohomauri, moho, moho pererū
pepe
1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.
See also moho pererū
Synonyms: pātātai, oho, pūohotata, motarua, pōpōtai, katatai, ohomauri, moho, moho pererū
pūohotata
1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.
See also moho pererū
Synonyms: pepe, pātātai, oho, motarua, pōpōtai, katatai, ohomauri, moho, moho pererū
tīkāka
1. (noun) reef heron, Egretta sacra - a slaty-grey heron with a long, heavy, grey to yellowish bill. Legs relatively short, yellow-green. Hunched and almost horizontal when feeding. Found in mangrove inlets, rocky shores, wave platforms and intertidal mudflats.
See also matuku moana
Synonyms: matuku nuia, matuku tai, matuku waitai, matuku moana, mātukutuku, kākatai
motarua
1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.
See also moho pererū
Synonyms: pepe, pātātai, oho, pūohotata, pōpōtai, katatai, ohomauri, moho, moho pererū
mātukutuku
1. (noun) reef heron, Egretta sacra - a slaty-grey heron with a long, heavy, grey to yellowish bill. Legs relatively short, yellow-green. Hunched and almost horizontal when feeding. Found in mangrove inlets, rocky shores, wave platforms and intertidal mudflats.
Ka tukua e ia ōna karere ki te tūtū i ngā tāngata o Te Waipounamu - arā, ngā iwi o konei; ko Karoro, ko Ngoio, ko Turiwhatu, ko Mātukutuku, ko Tarapunga, me Kawau-paka, me te tini noa iho o ngā ope manu o tēnei kāinga o te waitai (JPS 1901:72). / So he sent his messengers to summon the people of the South Island, that is the tribes of here - the black-backed gulls, the Ngoio, the New Zealand dotterel, the reef heron, the red-billed gull, the little shag, and the numerous other bird flocks of the ocean.
See also matuku moana
Synonyms: matuku nuia, matuku tai, matuku waitai, tīkāka, matuku moana, kākatai
2. (noun) clubmosses, Lycopodium spp - scrambling or epiphytic plants of various species. Main stems are usually long-creeping, branched and underground. Aerial stems fork repeatedly and are narrow. Small leaves spirally arranged around stem or flattened into one plane.
