kōura
1. (noun) salt-water crayfish, the southern rock lobster, red rock lobster, spiny rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii - a species of spiny lobster found throughout coastal waters of southern Australia and New Zealand including the Chatham Islands.
Ka nui te whaikōrero, ka tukua te kai, arā, te tuna, te inanga, te kōura, te toitoi (JPS 1901:74). / After a lot of speech-making, food was presented, that is eels, whitebait, crayfish and giant bully.
Synonyms: matapara, kōura papatea
2. (noun) packhorse rock lobster, Jasus verreauxi - found in the north and east of the North Island, live around rocky reefs at depths of 5 to 275m. Larger and have a slightly greener colour than rock lobster (crayfish). Distinguished by its much larger body size, smoother tail and its very broad carapace.
Synonyms: pawharu
3. (noun) North Island freshwater crayfish, Paranephrops planifrons, South Island freshwater crayfish, Paranephrops zealandicus - found in native forest, exotic forest, and pastoral waterways, but very rarely in urban streams because of chemical pollution, increased flood flows from stormwater inputs, and degradation of habitat.
matapara
1. (noun) rock lobster, spiny rock lobster, red rock lobster, spiny crayfish, Jasus edwardsii - reddish orange to purple crayfish with spines on the tail.
Synonyms: kōura papatea, kōura
2. dandle, nurse an infant.
3. (transitive verb) finger, handle carelessly.
4. remove tapiu from crops, etc.
tio
1. (verb) (-a) to be sharp, piercing (of the cold).
I te roa e tioa ana e te mātaratara, ka poroa ngā matimati o tana waewae mauī (PK 2008:931). / Because he was so long exposed to the intense cold, the toes of his left foot were amputated.
Synonyms: ratarata, hīmoemoe, kokoi, aneane, ngutu atamai, whakakoikoi, piki, pīrata, koi, naho
2. (modifier) freezing.
Mehemea kāhore e utua ngā nama, ka ākina rātou ki tētahi whenua e noho pūmautia ana e te huka, ā, whawhati ana ō rātou wheua i te hukapapa tio (TTR 1994:186). / If they did not pay they would be sent to an ice-bound country where their bones would crack from the freezing cold.
3. (noun) ice, freezing cold.
Kia mātaratara i runga, kia mātaratara i raro, kia ao ake te rā, he tio, he keho, he hauhunga (TMT 2/9/1861:23). / Let it be intensely cold above and below, let the day dawn with freezing cold, ice and frost.
4. (noun) rock oyster, Saccostrea cucullata - a bivalve mollusc found cemented to rocks below high tide. Because of its clustering habit it assumes varied shapes. Found only on the northern coast of the North Island.
Ko ā rāua tio mā tāua mō te Kirihimete (TWK 11:21). / Their rock oysters will be for you and me for Christmas.
See also tio repe
Synonyms: tio repe, matapura, tōrire, hānea, karahiwa, kararuri, karekawa, kawari, koeo, koeti, koriakai, korohiwa, korona, kororiwha, kūpā, marapeka, matamatangongo, mātangata, matatangata, kōramu
5. (noun) rough tree fern, Dicksonia squarrosa - native, medium-sized tree fern with a slender, often branching, trunk covered with black, peg-like remains of fallen fronds. Few fronds that spread horizontally with a few persistent brown dead fronds.
miware
1. (noun) young dark rock shell, young snail whelk, Haustrum haustorium - a large species of predatory sea snail. The shell has a low point, weak spiral groves and large aperature. Dark brown to purple in colour, white inside. Common among rocks between tides.
See also kāeo
ngāeo
1. (noun) Cook's turban shell, Cookia sulcata - a large, round, heavy univalve that lives under rocks just below low tide.
See also kāeo
2. (noun) dark rock shell, snail whelk, Haustrum haustorium - a large species of predatory sea snail. The shell has a low point, weak spiral groves and large aperature. Dark brown to purple in colour, white inside. Common among rocks between tides.
3. (noun) freshwater mussel, Hyridella menziesi - a bivalve mollusc which lives in fine mud or sand in freshwater lakes, ponds, streams and rivers. Has a dark, olive-brown coated shell and the inside is grayish-white.
See also kākahi
2. (noun) dark rock shell, snail whelk, Haustrum haustorium - a large species of predatory sea snail. The shell has a low point, weak spiral groves and large aperature. Dark brown to purple in colour, white inside. Common among rocks between tides.
3. (noun) freshwater mussel, Hyridella menziesi - a bivalve mollusc which lives in fine mud or sand in freshwater lakes, ponds, streams and rivers. Has a dark, olive-brown coated shell and the inside is grayish-white.
See also kākahi
2. (noun) conch shell trumpet - with an attached short, wooden mouthpiece.
3. (noun) Cook's turban shell, Cookia sulcata - a large, round, heavy univalve that lives under rocks just below low tide.
See also kāeo
4. (noun) knobble whelk, Austrofusus glans - a species of medium-sized sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc.
5. (noun) dark rock shell, snail whelk, Haustrum haustorium - a large species of predatory sea snail. The shell has a low point, weak spiral groves and large aperature. Dark brown to purple in colour, white inside. Common among rocks between tides.
He tōrino te āhua o te anga o te kākara, he anga manauri, he mā a roto, he awaawa whāiti e kōmiro ana i te anga, he waha nui tonu. / The shell shape of the dark rock shell is spiral, a dark shell that is white inside having narrow grooves spiralling around the shell and it has a quite wide mouth opening.
2. (noun) angel wing rock borer, Barnea similis - a wing-shaped bivalve mollusc found between tides inside tunnels which it bores into soft rock.
merengi rāka
1. (loan) (noun) rock melon.
Synonyms: kākāriki
kākāriki
1. (verb) to be green (in colour).
I te ngutu o te awa o Hamurana ka tau tō mātou tima, ka haere mā uta, ka mātakitaki ki te āhua o tēnā awa, purata tonu, kākāriki ana (TP 1/12/1901:10). / At the mouth of the Hamurana stream our steamer docked and we went inland, gazing at the appearance of that stream, which was quite clear and green.
2. (adjective) be green (in colour).
He kākāriki tō tētahi, he kākāriki-mā tō tētahi (HP 1991:249). / That of one was green, that of another was pale green.
3. (noun) yellow-crowned parakeet, Cyanoramphus auriceps, red-crowned parakeet, Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae - small green parrots with long tails.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 13, 163;)
I nāianei kua kore te manu, kua mate, kua ngaro te kākā me te kākāriki (TWMNT 22/9/1874:239). / Now the birds are no more, they've died and the kākā and kākāriki have disappeared.
Synonyms: kākā, tōreterete, pōwhaitere, pōreterete, kākāwaiariki, kākāwariki, kawariki, porete, torete
4. (noun) green tree gecko and jewelled gecko, Naultinus spp. - green geckos of various species found in low, dense shrubbery.
Synonyms: kawariki
5. (noun) green (colour).
He harakeke iraira, he mumura te kākāriki o ngā whā, he kōwhai ngā tāekaeka, he karaka ngā tapa me te tuaka, he mā, he mōhinuhinu te muka o tēnei harakeke (PK 2008:603). / A variegated flax, with bright green leaves, yellow stripes, orange edges and midrib, while the fiber of this flax is white and shiny.
6. (noun) rock melon, cantaloupe.
He pēnā anō ngā tōhuka, ngā kānga, ngā pāpapa, ngā merengi, ngā kākāriki, ngā taro me ngā rīwai (HP 1991:14). / The sugar cane, maize, kamokamo, melons, rock melons, taro and potatoes were exactly the same.
Synonyms: merengi rāka
tūāpapa
1. (noun) terrace, platform, flat rock, foundation, dias.
Ko ia te kaiārahi pekepoho o ngā tūruhi ki ngā tūāpapa o Ō-tū-kapua-rangi me Te Tarata i te moana o Rotomahana i mua i te hūnga o Tarawera Maunga i te tau 1886 (TTR 1994:25). / She was the principal tourist guides of the Pink and White Terraces at Lake Rotomahana before the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886.
Synonyms: kaupapa, kāraho, whatārangi, kahupapa, ahurewa, atamira, raho, rahoraho
pūrei
1. (verb) to be patchy, in small isolated groups or clusters, detached.
Synonyms: pūreirei
3. (noun) Carex secta - a sedge which grows in raised tufts. Common in swampy areas throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. Grows up to 1 m tall, with weeping, yellowish-green leaves.
See also pūreirei
kopukopu
1. (noun) rock cod, blue cod, Parapercis colias - blue to bluish-green fish with an elongated body and smoothly sloping head and snout. It is exclusively found in Aotearoa/New Zealand in shallow waters around the rocky coasts of up to the depth of 150 m, though it is far more common south of Cook Strait.
kōwhatu
1. (noun) stone, rock.
Nō muri ka rongo rātou ki ētahi tāngata he rāhui maki kūao nāna rātou i epaepa ki te kōwhatu i a rātou e hī ana (TWM 2/7/1868:4). / Later they heard from some people that it was a mob of young monkeys that pelted them with stones while they were fishing.
Synonyms: toka, kāmaka, kōhatu, hūrorirori
matuawhāpuku
1. (noun) scorpionfish, red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis - a fish from the northern North Island east coast, with variable colouration, usually mottled red, orange-brown and white. Spiny head and large mouth, eyes prominent. Inhabits rocky reefs at depths of less than 154 m.
Synonyms: pāhuiakaroa, pūaiwhakarua, pūhaiwhakarua, rai, rarai
tāwiri
1. (noun) white rock shell, Neothais scalaris - a univalve shellfish.
See also hopetea
Synonyms: hopetea, tihipu, kararuri, kawari, koeti, koriakai, korona, marapeka, matatangata, tōrire, tākupu, rehoreho, taiwhatiwhati, tanetane, tungangi, wētiwha, karahū, pure, ngūpara, kuharu, kūkukuroa, pūkanikani, poua, toitoi, tikoaka, tuangi, kaitua, mitimiti, ngārahu tatawa, ngārahu taua, kaitangata, tio para, totoro, tupa, ngaingai, taiawa, tūpere, ngaere, ngākihi awaawa, ngākihi tea, matangongore, maurea, karehu, ngāruru, papatua, ururoa, pipi, ngākihi hiwihiwi, hahari, hūai, pātiotio, pūkauri, pūpū harakeke, pūpū tuatea, pūtātara, pūrimu, takai, piritoka, angarite, hauwai, hihiwa, hoehoe, pīpipi, pāua, pūpū tarataratea, whētikotiko, tohemanga, tairaki, pipi tairaki, kūkuku, kukupati, papahurihuri, poua, tio, toheroa, tuangi haruru, miware, pūpū, ngārahu taua, ataata, pūpū atamarama, tihi, tipa, tuatua, ngākihi, taiawa, tūpere, kuhakuha, kukupara, ngākihi tea, matangongore, mimiti, tītiko, ngaeti, waharoa, ngāeo, tūteure, ngākihi kopia, hūai, pātitotito, pūkauri, pūpū māeneene, pūpū waharoa, purewha, takarepo, tūroro, kahitua, awatai, harihari, hoehoe, whāngai karoro, pūpū taratara, tātara, whētiko, ngūpara, kuharu, kukupati, hākari, rerekākara, tio, toheroa, tuangi haruru, kākara, miware, pūpū, peke, pūpū kōrama, tihipu, tio repe, totorere, toretore, kākahi, rūharu, karekawa, koeo, koio, korohiwa, kūpā, mātangata, matapura, hānea, tākupu, rehoreho, rereho, takarape, tungangi, wahawaha, whētikotiko, tohemanga, tairaki, kuhakuha, ngākihi hahae, kuku-mau-toka, niania, matangārahu, mimiti, tītiko, ngaeti, karoro, wahanui, pipi, ngākihi hiwihiwi, papatai, hohehohe, kōmore, peraro, pūpū karikawa, pūpū harakeke, pūpū tuatea, pūpū waitai, purewha, ruheruhe, tākai, pōrohe, angarite, hauwai, harihari, hinangi, kāeo, karahiwa, pūpū rore, poro, pūpū tarataratea, karariwha, kawari, koeti, kōrama, kororiwha, matamatangongo, kōramu, kurewha, pipi taiari, rereho, takarape, torewai, uere
