1. (adjective) be oval.

1. (noun) oval trough shell, harbour trough shell, Cyclomactra ovata - common bivalve shellfish with thin, white to yellowish-brown shell. Lives buried in soft mud of harbours and estuaries.

1. (adjective) oval, egg-shaped.

1. (adjective) stormy, hot.

1. (noun) pōkākā, Elaeocarpus hookerianus - a canopy tree found in lowland to montane forest with a trubk up to 1 m diameter. This tree has a distinct juvenile form which has twisted, interlacing branches with scattered narrow oval leaves (5cm x 6mm), the leaves have saw like teeth on the margins. Adult leaves are narrow-oblong (3-11cm x 1-3cm) are leathery and have a prominent mid vein and blunt serrations on the margins. Little pale yellow flowers. The fruit is a purplish oval drupe about 8mm long. Greyish white bark.

1. (loan) (noun) olive, Olea spp. - an evergreen tree with dark green lance-shaped leathery leaves. Also used for the small oval fruit with a hard stone of this tree.

1. (noun) broadleaf, Griselinia littoralis - short-trunked tree with dark green, oval-oblong leaves never shiny below and slightly unequal at the base. Found throughout the North, South and Stewart Islands.

1. (noun) king fern, horseshoe fern, Marattia salicin - huge, tufted native ground fern with unusually large, heavy, dark, glossy fronds, divided into long, strap-like leaflets. Stalks clasping at base, with large ear-like lobes. The underground stems were an important food.

1. (noun) black bream, parore, Girella tricuspidata - a silvery grey to grey-brown fish with vertical dark bars along the sides. Body oval and compressed with a small mouth. Most common in shallow waters around the northeastern North Island.

1. (verb) to be flat, level.

1. (noun) New Zealand brill, Colistium guntheri - a greenish-brown fish with fine dark mottling in longitudinal lines on upper surface. Body broadly oval with projecting hook-like snout and very small eyes. An endemic fish found south of Cook Strait to Otago inhabiting sand and mud seabed in inshore waters, harbours and estuaries to depths of 100 m. Sometimes written as two words, i.e. pātiki nui.

1. (noun) New Zealand sole, common sole, Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae - a fish greenish-grey on top, white beneath, with a rounded snout and a mouth not quite at the very front of the snout, hidden by a hook-like projection. The body is oval-elongate with a broad head and small eyes. Endemic occuring throughout coastal Aotearoa/New Zealand as far south as Southland. Inhabits sandy substrata in subtidal area to around 55 m.

1. (noun) pigeonwood, Hedycarya arborea - a tree with dark glossy leaves with widely spaced toothed margins. Flowers simple, green, around 1cm wide, arranged in small sprays. Fruit orange, oval, about 1cm long.

1. (noun) Māori potato cultivar which has white, waxy flesh and pink skin with yellow blotches and is oval in shape.

1. (noun) tanguru chafer, Stethaspis suturalis - a beetle with a yellow stripe on its back. Common in native forest and pine plantations in summer. Flys with a buzzing sound soon after dark. Its larva stage is a large white grub, called papahu, that feeds on tree roots.

1. (noun) taraire, Beilschmiedia tarairi - a large forest tree with dark green, oval, leathery leaves and dark purple fruit. The smooth, dark brown bark often takes on a greyish tinge due to lichen growth. Found naturally in the northern half of the North Island.

1. (noun) tawāpou, Planchonella costata - a branched tree reaching 15 m high found on islands and headlands from North Cape to Tolaga Bay in the east and to the Manukau Harbour in the west. Branches are clothed with hairs and the oval-oblong leaves are thick, leathery and shiny with a distinct midvein and lateral veins. Branches exude a milky fluid if cut. Large, tough, leathery leaves are glossy with obvious veins. Flowers are usually solitary and fruit is orange to purple-black containing 1-4 hard, curved, polished seeds.

1. (noun) tāwheowheo, Quintinia serrata - a small bushy tree of the North Island with pointed oval leaves. The mottled leaves have wavy, shallowly serrated margins. Favours shady places, steep slopes and banks.

1. (loan) (noun) date, Phoenix dactylifera - a tree with sweet, dark brown, oval fruit usually eaten dried.

1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - an endemic species of fungus. The fruiting bodies are shaped somewhat like a round or oval ball with interlaced or latticed branches. The mature fruiting body is foul-smelling and covered with a slime layer containing spores on the inner surfaces.