Aotearoa
1. (location) North Island - now used as the Māori name for New Zealand.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 78;)
Ko tētehi o aua keke i waiho hei tukutuku ki ngā whanaunga, i ia wāhi, i ia wāhi o Aotearoa, o Te Waipounamu (TW 21/2/1876:72). / One of those cakes was left to be sent to relatives in each part of the North and South Islands.
Synonyms: Hutinga a Māui, Te, Ika-a-Māui, Te, Ikaroa-a-Māui, Te, Niu Tīrani, Niu Tīreni, Niu Tīrene
rengarenga
1. (verb) to be crushed, pounded, destroyed, beaten.
Synonyms: kōrengarenga
2. (noun) rock lily, New Zealand lily, Arthropodium cirratum - a native plant with light green, broad and strap-like, glossy leaves and white flowers with yellow and purple centres, star-like on spindly, branching stalks. Grows in the North Island and the northern South Island, mostly on sea cliffs.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 98;)
Koirā a ia i kī ai: 'Māku anō e hanga tōku nei whare. Ko te tāhuhu he hīnau ko ngā poupou he māhoe, patatē. Me whakatupu ki te hua o te rengarenga, me whakapakari ki te hua o te kawariki.' (TTR 1994:134) / That's why he said: 'I myself shall build my house. The ridge-pole will be of hīnau and the supporting posts of māhoe and patatē. Raise the people with the fruit of the rengarenga, strengthened them with the fruits of the kawariki.'
3. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
See also kōkihi
Synonyms: tūtae ikamoana, rengamutu, kōkihi
akakiore
1. (noun) New Zealand jasmine, native jasmine, Parsonsia heterophylla, small New Zealand jasmine, Parsonsia capsularis - native climbing vines which often twine around themselves. Have longish leaves and white, sweet-scented, tubular flowers.
Engari te akakiore, kāore he niho o tērā (W 1971:221). / But the New Zealand jasmine, that has no thorns.
Synonyms: tautaua, kaihua, akakaikiore, tawhiwhi, poapoa tautaua, tūtae kererū, kaikū, kaiwhiria, tōtorowene, tōtoroene
rengamutu
1. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
See also kōkihi
Synonyms: tūtae ikamoana, kōkihi, rengarenga
2. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach,Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
Synonyms: tūtae ikamoana, rengamutu, rengarenga
tūtae ikamoana
1. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
See also kōkihi
Synonyms: rengamutu, kōkihi, rengarenga
akakaikiore
1. (noun) New Zealand jasmine, native jasmine, Parsonsia heterophylla, small New Zealand jasmine, Parsonsia capsularis - native climbing vines which often twine around themselves. Have longish leaves and white, sweet-scented, tubular flowers.
See also akakiore
Synonyms: tautaua, kaihua, akakiore, tawhiwhi, poapoa tautaua, tūtae kererū, kaikū, kaiwhiria, tōtorowene, tōtoroene
rewarewa
1. (noun) rewarewa, New Zealand honeysuckle, Knightia excelsa - a tall tree with long, stiff leaves having widely spaced teeth, the undersides, midvein and new growth being velvety brown.
Synonyms: rewa
kekeno
1. (noun) New Zealand fur seal, Arctocephalus forsteri - distinguished from the larger New Zealand sea lion by lacking obvious ears and being unable to stand on all fours when on land.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 46; Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 1;)
Ka pakaru ngā kākahu, ka tuia he kākahu mō rātou ki te kiri kekeno, he iwi toroa ngā ngira (TWM 20/2/1868:5). / When their clothes were ragged they sewed garments of seal skins and the needles were of albatross bone.
kererū
1. (noun) New Zealand pigeon, kererū, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae - a large green, copper and white native bush pigeon which was eaten by Māori. Kererū were one of two foods harvested during the Māori new year.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 11; Te Pihinga Study Guide (Ed. 1): 1;)
2. (noun) New Zealand pigeon feather.
Ka pūhekitia ki te kererū (W 1971:319). / It was ornamented with New Zealand pigeon feathers.
rewa
1. (verb) to melt, become liquid, dissolve.
Ka utua atu he hinu poaka ki runga i te ahi kia rewa, kia wera hoki (TAH 12:47). / Some lard was placed on the fire to melt and be heated.
Synonyms: whakakoero
2. (verb) to get under way, depart, set off.
I te tau 1853, ka rewa atu ngā kaiāwhina i a Te Mānihera a Te Wākana rāua ko J. W. Stack i Maraetai ki Te Kōhanga mā te awa o Waikato, ki te whakapai i te huarahi mō te Rongopai ina hanake a Te Mānihera i te tau 1854 (TTR 1990:42). / In 1853 Maunsell's assistants, Völkner and J.W. Stack travelled from Maraetai to Te Kōhanga via the Waikato River to prepare the way for the Gospel when Maunsell moved up in 1854.
Synonyms: marewa
3. (verb) to float.
Ka tōia e rātou te waka mō rātou, ka rewa ki te wai (NM 1928:143). / The canoe for them was dragged out and it floated on the water.
4. (verb) to be elevated, high up.
Tākina mai rā ngā huihui o Matariki, Puanga, Tautoru, ka ngaro Atutahi māna e whakarewa te tini whetū riki ka rewa kei runga (TJ 11/5/1899:4). / The constellations of the Pleiades, Rigel, Orion rise and Canopus disappears and elevates the many small stars suspended above.
5. (noun) mast.
E rua rau, e rima tekau ngā tāngata i ora i runga i ngā rewa e kuhu ake ana i roto i te wai (TWMNT 2/7/1873:78). / Two hundred and fifty people survived on the masts that were poking up out of the water.
6. (noun) flower of the rewarewa, rewarewa tree, Knightia excelsa, New Zealand honeysuckle - a tall tree with long, stiff leaves having widely spaced teeth, the undersides, midvein and new growth being velvety brown.
Ko te tokotoru o ngā nanakia he pī-ngaro. Ko rātou ki te wero i ngā manu ki a rātou hoari koi e mau i raro i rātou nā, arā i runga i ngā pua whakapaipai o ngā rau o ngā rātā, o ngā rewa, ngā kōhai, ngā hou, me ngā tini rākau katoa (TWMNT 22/9/1874:239). / The third pest is the honey-bee. These, with the sharp stings attached under them, pierce the birds upon the beautiful blossoms of the rātā, the rewarewa, the kōwhai, the whau, and other trees.
See also rewarewa
Synonyms: rewarewa
