pāwaiwhakarua
1. (noun) scarlet wrasse, Pseudolabrus miles - a reddish-yellow fish with posterior dark red margins on the scales, pale below with pale red longitudinal stripes on the sides. A distinctive purplish-black bar across the base of the tail. Body elongated and compressed. Endemic to Aotearoa/New Zealand. Common at subtidal depths below 10 m and favours areas of broken rock and crevices.
See also pūwaiwhakarua
Synonyms: pau, pūwaiwhakarua
pau
1. (noun) scarlet wrasse, Pseudolabrus miles - a reddish-yellow fish with posterior dark red margins on the scales, pale below with pale red longitudinal stripes on the sides. A distinctive purplish-black bar across the base of the tail. Body elongated and compressed. Endemic to Aotearoa/New Zealand. Common at subtidal depths below 10 m and favours areas of broken rock and crevices.
See also pūwaiwhakarua
Synonyms: pāwaiwhakarua, pūwaiwhakarua
māero
1. (loan) (noun) mile.
E hia māero te tawhiti o Rānana ki Swansea? Aua. Kāore au e mōhio. / How many miles is it from London to Swansea? I don't know.
Ko ngā māero o tēnei roto wai māori, tawhio noa, e 800 māero; ko te roa, e 250 māero; ko te whānui, e 90 māero (KO 15/3/1884:7). / This fresh water lake is 800 miles in circumference; the length is 250 miles; and the width is 90 miles.
pūwaiwhakarua
1. (noun) scarlet wrasse, Pseudolabrus miles - a reddish-yellow fish with posterior dark red margins on the scales, pale below with pale red longitudinal stripes on the sides. A distinctive purplish-black bar across the base of the tail. Body elongated and compressed. Endemic to Aotearoa/New Zealand. Common at subtidal depths below 10 m and favours areas of broken rock and crevices.
Synonyms: pāwaiwhakarua, pau
One-roa-a-Tōhē, Te
1. (location) Ninety Mile Beach - a long beach on the western side of the northern tip of the North Island.
See also Whāro Oneroa-a-Tōhē, Te
Synonyms: Whāro Oneroa-a-Tōhē, Te
Whāro Oneroa-a-Tōhē, Te
1. (location) Ninety Mile Beach.
Nō te tau 1943 i petihanatia e ia me ērā atu o ngā kaumātua te Pāremata mō te take a Te Aupōuri rātou ko Te Rarawa ki te rangatiratanga o Te Whāro Oneroa-a-Tōhē (TTR 1998:78). / In 1943 he and other elders petitioned Parliament concerning Te Aupōuri and Te Rarawa ownership of Ninety Mile Beach.
Synonyms: One-roa-a-Tōhē, Te
wakawaka
1. (noun) share, division, division of a harvesting area - a descent group's division of a harvesting area and may be on land, river or sea. Wakawaka may be a few yards wide or several miles, depending on the resource. They are always named.
Ko tētahi tauira mai i a Ngāi Tahu kīia ai ko te wakawaka, ngā paenga rohe tauranga ika i waenganui i ngā hapū (Te Ara 2013). / An example from Ngāi Tahu is the wakawaka, the boundaries of fishing grounds between hapū.
Mō te wakawaka. Tōna tikanga, he wāhanga whenua ki ngā whānau o te iwi. Ko tēnei kupu ko te māra, ko roto i te wakawaka (BFM 2013:341). / Concerning the wakawaka. This refers to land divisions for the extended families of the tribe. The garden is within a wakawaka. (The Māori statement written in June 1917 by Hari Hēmara Wahanui, a chief of Ngāti Maniapoto.)
See also manu
Synonyms: tohatoha, toha, tiri, tuari, wāhi, moka, wāhanga, hea
2. (noun) fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa - a small, friendly, insect-eating bird of the bush and domestic gardens which has a distinctive tail resembling a spread fan.
See also tīrairaka
Synonyms: tīrakaraka, tītīrairaka, tīraureka, pīrakaraka, pīrangirangi, pītakataka, tīrairaka pango, kōtiutiu, pīwaiwaka, tīwakawaka, tīrairaka, hīwaiwaka, hīrairaka, pīwakawaka, pīrairaka, tīwaiwaka, tītakataka
