2. (loan) (personal name) Nelson.
Tēnā tētehi ope i hoki mai i Taupō, tokoono, ko Nerehana Te Amotahi... (TW 28/8/1875:11/179). / Returning from Taupō was a group of six including Nelson Te Amotahi...
Synonyms: Whakatū
kōpūpūngāwhā
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: paopao, papao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
2. (noun) blister.
3. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, papao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, wāwā
kūwāwā
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, papao, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
ngungu
1. (noun) tree daisy, Olearia rani - a shrub with alternating leaves that are almost white underneath with darker veins and irregular teeth. Flowers are white with yellow centres, daisy-like and in clusters. Found throughout the North Island, Nelson and Marlborough on forest margins, clearings and stream and riverbanks.
See also heketara
paopao
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, papao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
papao
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
heketara
1. (noun) tree daisy, Olearia rani - a shrub with alternating leaves that are almost white underneath with darker veins and irregular teeth. Flowers are white with yellow centres, daisy-like and in clusters. Found throughout the North Island, Nelson and Marlborough on forest margins, clearings and stream and riverbanks.
Ka tino purotu te puāwai o te rākau, arā, o te kōwhai, o te hutukawa, o te rātā, o te heketara, o te rangiora (TTT 1/4/1929:972). / The flowers of the trees were quite beautiful, that is of the kōwhai, the pōhutukawa, the rātā, the tree daisy and the rangiora.
wāwā
1. lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, papao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū
Hokoteta
1. (loan) (personal name) Hochstetter - Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829-1884) German geologist and writer who made extensive geological surveys of Auckland and Nelson provinces in 1858.
He maha ngā tāngata i puta ā rātou poropititanga mō runga i tēnei aituā. Te tuatahi, ko Tākuta Hokoteta, he Tiamani, he ruānuku, he mōhio ki ngā tikanga o te āhua o te whenua, o ngā kōhatu me ngā aha noa (KO 24/8/1886:6). / Many people prophesied this calamity. The first was Dr Hochstetter, a German and an expert on aspects related to geographical and geological aspects of the land.
2. (noun) argillite, metamorphosed indurated mudstone - a dark grey stone often used for weapons and sometimes musical instruments. Particularly associated with the Nelson-Marlborough region, Rangitoto (D'Urville Island), along the Whangamoa mineral belt, and in the upper reaches of the Maitai, Wairoa and Motueka Rivers.
Kua kitea ētahi i hangaia mai i te pakohe me te tangiwai (Te Ara 2012). / Some have been found made of argillite and bowenite.
3. (noun) weapon made of argillite.
īnanga
1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a small silvery-white native fish with a slender body. Found in streams, rivers, lakes, swamps and pools throughout the coastal regions of Aotearoa/New Zealand up to 215 km inland. Forms small to large schools. Maximum size 190 mm. Adults mature at 1 year and migrate downstream on new or full moons to spawn when the spring tide floods marginal vegetation. Eggs are left amongst the vegetation out of the water and hatch at the next spring tide.
Ko te hao hopu i ngā īnanga me ngā ngāore, he hiraka mā (HP 1991:17). / The net for catching whitebait and smelt was of white silk.
2. (noun) a whitish, pale grey-green or creamy-coloured variety of greenstone.
Ko te pounamu tuatahi i kitea e ia, he īnanga; i kitea atu ki te īnanga ika nei, e tau ana mai i roto i te awa; kātahi ka tahuri ki te haohao, ka whātoro te ringa o Hine-te-uira-i-waho ki te wai, ka riro ake te kōwhatu hei punga mō te kupenga haohao, kia totohu ai ki roto i te wai. Ka kitea, e! he kōwhatu rerekē tēnei kōwhatu; ka kīia tēnā kōwhatu he īnanga (JPS 1913:113). / The first type of greenstone he saw was the kind called 'īnanga', because it was seen with īnanga the fish (whitebait), which he proceeded to catch. When Hine-te-uira-i-waho stretched out her hand into the water to get a stone as a sinker for the net, to sink it in the water, this stone was seen to be quite different, hence the name 'īnanga'.
3. (noun) grass tree, Dracophyllum longifolium - a shrub from 1 m to 10 m tall with black, deeply fissured bark. Leaves are longitudinally channelled and minutely serrate. Found in the South Island and Stewart Island, except in eastern Nelson, Marlborough and Canterbury. Also known as īnaka.
kāpūngāwhā
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, papao, kūwāwā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
kōpūngāwhā
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, papao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
